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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Apple farmers stir may affect Himachal Pradesh polls again

Apple farmers stir may affect Himachal Pradesh polls again

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published Published on Oct 30, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 31, 2022

-Deccan Herald

Since the Apple agitation 30 years ago, apple growers have hardly hit the streets

Kotkhai/Theog/Fagu: In 1990, Himachal Pradesh saw one of the fiercest agitations by apple growers. The demand by the protestors from the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government headed by Shanta Kumar was to fix a minimum support price for the apple crop. In a gathering on July 22 that year in Kotgarh, where hundreds of protestors got together, the police fired shots, leaving three farmers — Govind Singh, Tara Chand, and Hira Singh — dead. Many more were injured.

The Apple agitation changed the political climate, the Congress with Virbhadra Singh won 60 of the state’s 68 seats. Kumar lost the two seats he had contested. Eventually, the Virbhadra government introduced the Mandi Intervention Scheme (MIS) to fix a minimum price for the crop.

Since the Apple agitation 30 years ago, apple growers have hardly hit the streets. That changed last year when apple growers in the state came back on to the streets with a set of demands faced with rising costs and dwindling profits. 

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Deccan Herald, 30 October, 2022, https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/apple-farmers-stir-may-affect-himachal-pradesh-polls-again-1157927.html


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