SKM starts work on ‘Mission Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand

Tribune News Service
Panipat, June 19

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders have now started work to draw an action plan to launch “Mission – Uttar Pradesh (UP), Uttarakhand” soon to oppose the ruling BJP in the Assembly elections scheduled next year.

The leaders have decided to organise meetings with farmer leaders in the two states to finalise the plan for both states.

Yogender Yadav, SKM leader, said thousands of farmers were sitting at Delhi borders for their demands for the repeal of the three farm laws, legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for their produces and other issues.

The Central government was not hearing the genuine problems of the farmers, who had decided they would not go back till their demands were fulfilled, said Yadav.

The proposal to oppose the ruling BJP in the poll-bound states, especially in UP and Uttarakhand, had come to the SKM already and was discussed in detail. It had been finalised that “Mission UP and Uttarakhand” would be launched soon, Yadav said.

But before launching it, we had to finalise the action plan on how to execute it. There were scores of farmer organisations that had been working in these two states, but these were not able to come to the meetings of the SKM, Yadav said.

“We will hold meetings with these farmer organisations and then a perfect action plan would be framed which would be announced formally.”