AIKS to launch 'Modi Gaddi Chhodo' agitation from Uttar Pradesh in August

Farmers under the banner of All India Kisan Sabha will launch a ‘Modi Gaddi Chhodo’ agitation to commemorate Quit India day on August 9, announced Atul Anjaan CPI national secretary and All India Kisan Sabha general secretary in Lucknow.

Anjaan said that the decision was taken at a meeting of representatives of more than 30 farmers' organisations, enjoying support of other 10 organisations, held at the office of Kisan Sabha at Lucknow. As many as 62 farmer leaders attended the meeting, he said.

State level coordination committees are on the anvil to coordinate state-wide farmers’ agitation and rallies. Such committees will come up across the country in the next few months, he announced.

Anjaan said the committees would help take the farmers' agitation to the tehsil and village level and would strengthen the farmers' agitation already being carried out at the Delhi borders and elsewhere.

He added that the first meeting of farmers is likely to be held at Ghosi on August 9, which is considered to be a stronghold of communists and was represented by CPI’s Jharkhande Rai in the Lok Sabha several times.

A grand farmers’ rally will be held in Lucknow in October to focus on problems being faced by farmers due to farm laws and other issues. Several important leaders will address the rally, Anjaan informed.

The CPI leader said that elaborate arrangements are being made to hold a major farmers' rally in Muzaffarnagar, where the farmers' agitation has received huge support.

Anjaan hoped that intensifying the agitation in the next few months will bear enough pressure on the Union and state governments to take a second look into the genuine demands of farmers and decide to roll back the farm trade laws.

(IPA Service)