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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Cattle and cash curbs stoke farm revolt -Arnab Ganguly

Cattle and cash curbs stoke farm revolt -Arnab Ganguly

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published Published on Sep 26, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 26, 2017
-The Telegraph

Sikar (Rajasthan): A 13-day agitation by Rajasthan's farmers, joined by about 100 disc jockeys with sound systems blaring, has forced the Vasundhara Raje government to agree to loan waivers up to Rs 50,000 and payment of the full minimum support price.

Some 15,000 farmers had gathered at a mandi in Sikar town, 115km from Jaipur, on September 1 and by the time the government buckled on September 13 night, their strength had grown to nearly one lakh, according to spearhead All India Kisan Sabha.

On September 9, the Sikar district DJs' association sent a cavalcade of over 100 sound system-fitted cars to join the protests.

"We too come from farming families, which too are burdened with loans," explained Babulal, a DJ who performs at weddings and other celebrations.

While the mainstay of the movement was Sikar, where the Kisan Sabha has a strong base, the organisation with less than 4 lakh members in the state managed to mobilise support in 13 other districts too.

Traders observed a day's strike in Sikar in support of the farmers and provided the agitators with food and water.

"The trader who sells farm equipment is burdened with the goods and services tax. He knows that if the farmer is unable to sell his crop, he cannot buy the trader's products," said Navrang Lal, a trader from neighbouring Neemrana.

Amra Ram, the All India Kisan Sabha national president and a four-time ex-legislator from the CPM, admits that the farmers have merely won the first round.

"A farmer has to first fight to get his demands accepted, and a second time to have them implemented. We are ready," he said in his chamber at "Comrade Bhavan", the district CPM headquarters in Sikar.

A series of central government decisions over the past one year - from demonetisation to cattle sale curbs and the goods and services tax - had left farmers and allied traders reeling. Several decisions of the state's BJP government compounded the problems.

Rajasthan, the only state with a full-fledged ministry dedicated to cows, imposed a 10 per surcharge on stamp duty on non-judicial instruments this year to raise money to protect cows.

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The Telegraph, 25 September, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170925/jsp/nation/story_174909.jsp#.WchcScBDGJI.twitter


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