CG Kisan Sabha stages ‘chakka jam’
   Date :07-Feb-2021

Activists of Chhattisgarh
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
RAIPUR,
 
Terming the farm reform laws as anti-farmer and demanding its immediate repeal, the Chhattisgarh Kisan Sabha (CGKS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Chhattisgarh Kisan Mazdoor Mahasangh, Adiwasi Ekta Mahasabha along with all organisations connected to Chhattisgarh Kisan Andolan staged ‘Chakka Jam’ and demonstration across State on Saturday. They also opposed the Union Budget for the Financial Year 2021-22, while terming it a pro-corporate budget.
 
Demanding immediate repeal of farm reform laws or otherwise resign from the Government, these Communist organisations carried out Chakka Jam and demonstrations across State, including Raipur, Korba, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur, Raigarh, Kanker, Durg, Surguja, Surajpur and Balod districts widely supporting the country-wide ‘Chakka Jam’ and demonstration call given by the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samiti and Sanyukt Kisan Morcha against the new Farm Reform Laws. In a statement issued jointly by Chhattisgarh Kisan Sabha President Sanjay Parate and General Secretary Rishi Gupta stated that along with chakka jam and demonstration, public meetings were also held in many places. The principal demands of these organisations were repealing the new farm reforms and to ensure Minimum Support Price (MSP), which will be one and a half times more than the cost of production (C-2 Cost). They alleged that the Centre has again curtailed actual expenses to be carried out in the agriculture sector by 8 percent apart from curtailing food-grain subsidy by 41 per cent.
 
This will weaken the food security facility being received through PDS along with mandi and co-operative society for farmers. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) blamed the Central Government for having descended to a new low in its ‘war’ against its farmers, whose land and markets it wants to legally hand over to Foreign and Indian Corporate Giants. Addressing a public meeting at Boriyakhurd, CITU State Secretary Dharmraj Mahapatra said that the Central Government’s methods to prevent farmers from entering Delhi to ‘save’ its fortress of mis-governance and disservice to Citizen Farmers is reprehensible. He said the entry points have concrete blocks, serpentine rolls of razor-sharp concertina wire, concrete walls and steel spikes, fixed on roads designed to prevent physical entry, harass the locals and injure people and animals.
The farmers only wish was to raise their voice and be heard in the political capital of India. But ‘law enforcers’ have outed them, ‘illegally’. Internet services at dharna sites has been blocked to hide facts, water supply, food supply routes and electricity have been blocked. Several fabricated cases have been lodged and more than 100 farmers have been arrested, with many still missing. The dispute is as crystal clear, clearer than any other in this 72nd year of the Republic. The Road Blockades held in Rasni, Santoshi Nagar, Bhilai, Rajhara, Korba, Bilaspur, Sarguja and other centers of State on Highways. CITU, State Government employees, Insurance employees, SFI, DYFI, IPTA, CPI (M) also participated in the programme.