The next all India conference of Kisan Mahasabha (AIKM) will be held on 23-24 September in Bihar. The conference will focus on the burning issues of farmers especially guaranteed purchase of all crops at MSP from farmers and sharecroppers, guarantee foodgrains to needy at affordable prices through PDS, reducing the input costs and profitable crop prices.
The All India Kisan Mahasabha leaders have issued a statement-cum-appeal saying the farmers' income has not doubled in 2022 as promised. Instead, spiralling prices of fertilizers and diesel and all-round inflation have increased household and farming expenses and left farmers in deep distress. Yet another promise of the Modi government has proved to be a 'jumla'.
After the 13-month long farmers' movement on the Punjab-Haryana-Delhi borders in which more than 700 farmers were martyred, the Modi government, faced with imminent elections in 5 states, was forced to roll back the 3 black farm laws, but the government persists with its pro-corporate anti-farmer policies. The government is continuously running away from legal status to MSP for all crops and C+50% crop price as per Swaminathan Commission recommendations. The Right to Food is being jeopardized by manufacture of ethanol from food grains. Agriculture has been pushed into deep crisis by high costs of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, diesel, electricity, lack of irrigation and lack of fair crop procurement prices. The Kisan Samman Yojana and PM Crop Insurance Scheme have failed to provide relief to farmers but are in fact helping corporate companies. The government is indifferent to the issues of farmers, sharecroppers and agrarian workers, is depriving farmers' sons and daughters and youth of dignified job opportunities and is destroying the Constitution and democracy to do so. The Modi government and its agents are spewing venom and communal hatred to implement its pro-corporate policies and impose its Hindu Rashtra agenda.
In this backdrop the AIKM intends to put pressure on the government to implement pro-farmer policies by recreating the farmers' movement, building farmers' unity and a strong farmers' organization. The AIKM General Secretary Rajaram Singh called upon to make the national conference to be held on 23-24 September 2022 at Vikramganj, Rohtas, a great success. A Kisan Mahapanchayat will also be organized on this occasion. He also informed that the AIKM membership drive is going on which also serving as a campaign for crop procurement at MSP, Food Security, and lowering of cost for farm products.
