Farm outfit holds protests against Amit Shah’s visit

Moga: Punjab chapter of farm forum Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) held protests at 32 places across 19 districts of Punjab coinciding with the visit of the Union home minister Amit Shah to the state on Saturday. The protests were held with the demands to exclude agriculture and allied sector from the Indo-US trade deal; electricity, seeds bills and labour codes to be cancelled; resumption of old MGNREGA; legal right of MSP on all crops as per C2+50%; and farm debt waiver. The protesters also burnt the effigies of the central government at all the protest sites and took out protest marches. They slammed naming of Shah's rally as ‘badlav', saying farmers do not want more ‘badlav' as whatever BJP has done without ‘badlav' is intolerable. The KMM had also held protests when Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal had visited Moga on Feb 16 for a rally against drugs.