New Delhi Nov 30 PTI To constitute a committee for discussion on MSP and other issues the Centre has sought five names from the Samkyukt Kisan Morcha SKM and it will be decided by the umbrella body of farmer unions in its December 4 meeting farmer leader Darshan Pal said on TuesdayThe move comes a day after both Houses of Parliament passed a Bill to repeal the three contentious farm laws against which farmers have been protesting for a yearToday the Centre has asked for five names from SKM for the committee that will deliberate on the issue of minimum support price MSP for crops We have not yet decided on the names We will decide this in our December 4 meeting Pal told PTIThe SKM an umbrella body of over 40 farm unions has been spearheading the farmers movement against the three farm laws and their other demands including a legal guarantee for MSPEarlier this month Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that a committee would be formed to take decisions on the subjects of promoting zero budgeting-based agriculture changing crop patterns as per the changing needs of the country and making MSP more effective and transparentHe made the announcement during his address to the nation in which he also stated that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year PTI AKM BUN NSD

New Delhi Nov 21 PTI The Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Sunday decided to send an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to raise its pending demands and said farmers will go ahead with their planned march to Parliament on November 29 to observe one year of anti-farm law protestsThe umbrella body of agitating farm unions took the decision in a meeting its first after the prime minister in his address to the nation on Friday announced repeal of the three farm laws which triggered a year of protests by farmersThe Samyukt Kisan Morcha SKM met to decide on the next course of action including on legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price MSP for crops which is one its pending demandsThe body will hold another meeting on November 27 farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal saidThis meeting will come ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament which begins on November 29 and during which the farm laws will be repealed formallyWe discussed the repeal of farm laws After this some decisions were taken The Lucknow Kisan Mahapanchayat will be held tomorrow Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Diwas on Sir Chhotu Rams birth anniversary on November 24 Dilli Border Morche pe Chalo on November 26 and all state-level farmer-worker protests in states far away from Delhi and Sansad Chalo on November 29 Rajewal said while addressing a press conference at the Singhu border one of the anti-farm law protest sites During the meeting it was decided to send an open letter to the prime minister raising the pending demands of the farmers movement including a central legislation to guarantee a remunerative MSP a statement from the SKM saidSKM also decided to continue with all the announced programmes as per plan The next meeting will take place on November 27 to review developments if any it addedFarmer leaders have been maintaining that the protesters will stay put at border areas of Delhi until the Centre formally repeals these laws in Parliament and has indicated their stir for a statutory guarantee of MSP and withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bill will continue PTI NIT GJS SLB ANB ANB

New Delhi [India], November 21 (ANI): The Samyukta Kisan Morcha's (SKM) meeting began at Delhi's Singhu border on Sunday to discuss the future course of action on farmers protest after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced repealing the three farm laws.

Rohtak (Haryana) [India], November 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Kisan Union (Haryana) president Gurnam Singh Chaduni on Sunday said that if Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation of around 40 farm unions, protesting against three farm laws, approves then BKU will march towards Parliament on November 26.

Noida Oct 25 PTI Farmers protesting against the central farm laws will hold a countrywide protest on Tuesday to demand the sacking of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni whose son is an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri episode in which eight people including farmers were killedThe call for the protest has been made by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha SKM a farmer unions collective leading the anti-farm laws stir since November 2020 at Delhis borders the Bhartiya Kisan Union BKU which is part of the movement saidDemonstrations would be held at administrative headquarters in every district of the country A memorandum will be submitted to the government with a demand that the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra be removed from his post BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik told PTIThe pan-India protest will be supported by all farmer groups associated with the movement against the contentious farm laws Through the memorandum we will also appeal once again that these laws be rolled back Malik saidHe said local issues faced by farmers at regional levels and district levels will also be highlighted during the protests on TuesdayFour farmers were killed in Tikonia area of Lakhimpur Kheri district the native place of the Union minister in Uttar Pradesh on October 3 after they were allegedly mowed down by an SUVLater the crowd lynched four other people including BJP workersOver a dozen people including the ministers son Ashish Mishra have been arrested so far by a special investigation team SIT which is probing the case PTI KIS TIR TIR

New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): Railway services in 184 locations in all seven zones of the railways were disrupted due to a nationwide 'Rail Roko' protest called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Monday, as per the information received from the Ministry of Railways.

New Delhi: One person was detained by Haryana police in Sonipat in connection to the gruesome murder of a 35-year-old at the Sindhu border yesterday. The incident where a corpse was found hanging with hands and legs chopped at the spot where farmers’ protest is underway. “The person has been detained from Kundli in Sonipat. An FIR has been lodged,” said police. (ANI) The killing is said to be Taliban style killing.

New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member and senior party leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday condemned the FIR registered against Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and 10 other political leaders, who were headed to meet the kin of victims in Lakhimpur Kheri violence on October 3 and said that the "democracy in Uttar Pradesh is under lockdown."

New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government and said that party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's detention is "completely illegal and utterly shameful".

New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Slamming the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government over inaction in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday demanded justice for those killed in the violence that broke out after a car hit protesting farmers in the district.