20 farm groups plan to protest PM Narendra Modi’s Punjab visit

BATHINDA: Twenty farm groups from Punjab have decided to hold protests during the visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Punjab’s Doaba and Malwa regions on February 14 and 16, respectively.
No protest will be held on February 17 when the PM will visit Abohar in Malwa. Farm groups have also decided to burn effigies of the PM and the central government for not keeping its word on pending demands, including formation of a committee to deliberate on MSP, withdrawal of cases against farmers and compensation to bereaved farmer families.
The protests will be held under the banner of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar, some days ago, had said in Rajya Sabha that MSP committee will be formed after elections in five states. After the formation of farmers political front Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) to contest elections, the SKM has added some more farm groups to it. Some internal issues are also going on in the farm groups going to polls.