In Chhattisgarh, activists of CITU, Kisan Sabha and Adivasi Ekta Mahasabha will organize demonstrations in villages, labor settlements and quarries. For this movement, the Kisan Sabha has made "Country will not sell" as its theme slogan. This information was given by Chhattisgarh Kisan Sabha President Sanjay Parate and General Secretary Rishi Gupta.
In a statement issued here today, he told that the demands on which this movement is mainly focused include giving 10 kg of food grains free to every person for the next six months and cash assistance of Rs 7500 every month to every family outside the income tax. Giving, giving 200 days of work and 600 rupees to laborers in MNREGA, giving unemployment allowance to unemployed and running employment guarantee scheme for urban poor also, withdrawal of three recently issued anti-agriculture ordinances and anti-labor provisions made in labor laws And withdrawal of executive orders, prohibiting privatization of public industries such as coal and rail, fixing one-and-a-half times the C-2 cost of support to the crops of farmers, freeing them of debt, and tribals under forest rights law to individual and community forest lands Demands to grant local communities the right to lease and decide the use of natural resources under the provisions of PESA and the 5th Schedule are included.
Kisan Sabha leaders said that the three recently issued ordinances related to agriculture are ordinances that destroy farming, enslave farmers to corporates and destroy the public distribution system, which should be withdrawn immediately.
