Left parties extend complete support to farmers’ struggle: Sitaram Yechury

SRINAGAR — General Secretary of CPI (M), Sitaram Yechury on Monday said that the Left parties extend their complete support to and solidarity with the huge protests by the farmers of the country.

“Lakhs have converged around Delhi, demanding the withdrawal of the Agri laws passed in the Parliament in a brazen anti-democratic manner, and the Electricity (Amendment) Bill,” Yechury said.

Yechury added that braving intense repression and in the midst of severe cold wave conditions, lakhs of Kisans have reached Delhi. However, they are not being permitted to come to Parliament, as announced earlier, to present their demands, he said.

“The Left parties call upon all their units in the country to coordinate and organise joint solidarity protest actions in multifarious forms appropriate to the concrete local situation. The calls given by the Kisan organisations, agricultural labour organisations and trade unions must be supported,” Yechury said.

He said the Left parties demand that the Prime Minister and the Central government accede to the demands of the protesting farmers for safeguarding Indian agriculture, our food security, remunerative returns to Kisans, prevent artificial food shortages and rise in prices of essential commodities.