‘Make farmers’ struggle into a people’s movement’

Terming the Centre’s three farm laws as “unconstitutional”, veteran journalist and Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient Palagummi Sainath said the need of the hour is to buttress the ongoing resilient farmers’ struggle into a people’s movement to safeguard agriculture and the national food security.

Local committees be formed at the district and mandal level across the country by involving all sections of society to espouse the cause of farmers under the banner ‘Kisan Bachao – Desh Bachao’ (Save Farmers – Save the Country), he said, adding that the products of the corporate companies hurting farmers’ interests should be boycotted. A special session of Parliament be convened immediately to discuss agrarian crisis and a permanent commission on agrarian welfare be set up to protect the interests of farmers, he said. He was delivering the K L Narasimha Rao memorial lecture on the topic ‘Vyavasaya Rangam – Rythu Chhattalu’ (Agriculture Sector – Farm Acts) here late on Tuesday evening.