Hike in fuel prices: Farmers burn effigy of Prime Minister

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 30

Farmer activists from various unions today burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for hike in diesel prices and for bringing three ordinances associated with agriculture recently.

The farmer leaders stated that the diesel prices have increased astronomically in the current sowing season when farmers needed to use the machinery for work. Farmer leader Lakhbir Singh Nizampura said, “The increase in diesel prices has increased the input cost of the agriculture.” He said farmers had been hit hard as input costs are increasing and profits are going down.

Another farmer leader Bhupinder Singh Tirathpura said, the government had brought the three new laws by bringing the new ordinances. He said as these laws would impact the agrarian community, the laws could have been passed after proper discussion and keeping in view the problems of the farmers.

The farmer leaders stated that they would not allow the Centre to withdraw Minimum Support Price (MSP) as it would leave the farmers at the mercy of private traders. The farmer leaders demanded that the government should withdraw all the three ordinances and keep a check on high prices of diesel.