SKM calls for protest against fuel price hikes on July 8
The Hindu
No decision on march to Parliament
Farm unions will hold nationwide protests against the hikes in fuel prices on July 8. Protestors will bring empty cooking gas cylinders and gather by roadsides without obstructing traffic from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, said the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), after a meeting at the Singhu border on Friday. Although the SKM general body meeting, attended by representatives from 67 unions, discussed the proposal to undertake a march to Parliament, no decision was taken to do it during the upcoming session, according to union leaders. Instead, a decision was taken to reach out to all Members of Parliament on July 17, two days before the session begins, to urge them to act on behalf of protesting farmers who are demanding a repeal of three farm reform laws, and a legal guarantee for minimum support prices. “Some of the unions are in a hurry, but we have not finalised anything as we don’t want it to be a small protest that will fizzle out,” said All India Kisan Sabha general secretary Hannan Mollah, who is one of the core committee members of the SKM.More Related News