Farmers Protest: Women farmers hold ‘Kisan Sansad’ at Jantar Mantar in Delhi
As many as 200 women farmers from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi for a ‘Kisan Sansad’ on Monday to protest against the farm laws.
The women farmers during the 'Kisan Sansad' at Jantar Mantar in Delhi raised slogans demanding repeal of the three farm laws.
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These legislations are the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
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The focus of Women farmers' ‘Kisan Sansad’ was the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020, and demand for the enactment of a law guaranteeing minimum support price (MSP) for their crops.
It was moderated by politician and speaker Subhasini Ali. The 'session' commenced with the singing of the National Anthem. Later, 'the House' observed a two-minute silence in the memory of the farmers who died during the eight-month agitation.
"Women can farm as well run the country, and everybody here is a politician,” Ali said.
She asserted that the farmers' protest against the farm laws will continue. “The government keeps calling farmers terrorists, Khalistanis, etc. but if they have the strength, then they should not eat the food produced by these terrorists and Khalistanis,” she added.
As part of ‘Kisan Sansad’, which is a part of the farmers’ protest against farm laws, the farmers from the protest sites at Delhi borders have been gathering at Jantar Mantar while the Parliament’s Monsoon session is underway.
Delhi government has granted special permission for the protest by a maximum of 200 farmers at Jantar Mantar till August 9.
-PTC News
