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News Desk: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha has condemned RSS-affiliated Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, saying that the right-wing farmers’ organisation “has eroded its public support through baseless allegations against the protesting farmers”.
The BKS had on Monday issued a scathing statement against the SKM’s proposed “Black Day” on Wednesday.
The SKM said it was sad that “a so-called farmers’ union had stooped down to denigrating a historical farmers’ struggle led by it”.
Terming the BKS’s allegations “baseless”, the SKM said it is “apparent that political and party affiliations are coming in the way of BKS’s understanding of the three black central laws, as well as the fight for MSP as a legal right”.
“The SKM believes that any farmer outfit that maligns the current genuine farmers’ movement is bound to be made irrelevant by Indian farmers themselves. The BKS’s statement is to be understood in this background, where because of the ongoing widespread farmers’ movement, it is finding that its support base is eroding rapidly,” SKM claimed.
The SKM also asked the BKS to appeal to the government to fulfill the farmers’ demands, “instead of proving itself as the anti-farmer government ever in independent India”. The umbrella body of farmers unions said that the movement is “running on truth and non-violence and will complete six months of its historical struggle tomorrow” and urged all Indians to celebrate and mark Buddha Poornima tomorrow, “so that truth and non-violence find a strong place back in our community, at the time when attempts are being made to erode these basic values in our society”.
“The repeated attempts of the BJP government(s) to portray the movement as violent have failed again and again. Farmers have only strengthened themselves with peace and non-violence throughout this struggle,” it said.
The BKS had claimed that the “real intent of those sitting at Delhi’s borders in the name of farmers was demonstrated when they spread fear and terror in the most undemocratic way on January 26”. BKS general secretary Badri Narayan Choudhary said the entire farming community is “feeling angry and questioning that who gave these people the right to defame farmers in such a way”.
“Ever since the inception of this so-called farmer’ agitation, genuine farmers are ashamed of the undemocratic, anti-people way of these so-called farmer leaders who are being financed by anti-India agencies outside India and terrorising people with the help of terrorist elements”, said the leader of the farmers’ organisation associated with the Sangh.
Choudhary said that the BKS had objected to the “presence of anti-social, anarchic elements in this agitation from day one itself” and that “after January 26, it was confirmed that the so-called farmers’ agitation has been completely hijacked by anti-social, anti-democracy and anarchic people”.
“Last month, a farmer’s young daughter from WB was gang-raped at the agitation site and pushed to death. The so-called farmer’s leaders tried to destroy evidence. Perhaps now to divert and silence the investigation, these pressure tactics are being adopted. This is a usual practice among ultra-left and anti-democratic activists,” he alleged.
