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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kisan Swaraj Yatra to reach Chandigarh on 2nd December

Kisan Swaraj Yatra to reach Chandigarh on 2nd December

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published Published on Dec 1, 2010   modified Modified on Dec 1, 2010

The Kisan Swaraj Yatra, a nation-wide mobilization drawing fresh attention to the “continuing agricultural crisis in India”, and calling for a comprehensive new path for Indian agriculture, will reach Chandigarh on December 2, 2010.
 
The bus-Yatra started at the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram on October 2, and is passing through 20 states before reaching Rajghat, New Delhi on December 11. KSY is organised by all India network of over 400 organisations named - Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture. Yatra is accompanied by organic farmers, environmental activists, writers and journalists, students, consumer right activists and scientists from across the India.     
 
Terming Kisan Swaraj Yatra as a caravan for third war of Independence Umendra Dutt, Executive Director Kheti Virasat Mission ,who is coordinating Yatra in Punjab said “You would have heard about the East India Company through which the British Empire went on to subjugate Indians and rule them for hundreds of years. It took the lives of many freedom fighters to liberate Indians from the clutches of such foreign control and allow us our sovereignty, to decide on our own development and future. These freedom-fighters were inspired by the dream of Gram Swaraj -- self-governance and self-reliance -- for each village of India. Today, however, we are at a sad juncture where the key policy makers in the country are dreaming about displacing millions of farmers from their agriculture and want to create business opportunities around everything in agriculture, for big multi-national corporations. They dream about human-less agriculture and do not count the massive socio-cultural, environmental and political ramifications of giving up our agri-sovereignty. It is an unconscionable national shame that more than 200,000 anna daatas of this country have committed suicide.  The people who feel concerned about all these issues has taken initiative to question these anti-farmers, anti-nature, pro-corporate policy directions of the government through Kisan Swaraj Yatra . Farmers participating in Yatra will elaborate the issue of ecological agriculture to let the Government and farmers and consumers know that self-reliant farming is indeed possible and is the only way forward.
 
“In the last 66 days of the Yatra, the Yatris have witnessed new resolutions by many rural communities that have committed to ecological farming. They have received endorsements from ministers and state governments. They have received support from Indian Film Industry stars and urban consumers.” Said Kultar Singh, Secretary Kheti Virasat Mission.  
 
Agricultural groups, consumers, scientists, ecological farmers, Gandhians, students, activists from all over the country have welcomed the Yatra with great respect and excitement. The different sections of the society have come together during the Yatra to forge a strong nationwide alliance to steer India’s agriculture towards sustainability and justice, he informed.
 
Thousands of people around India are joining the Yatra to mobilize support for the farmers who grow our food, and to address the crisis of our agriculture and food systems which is affecting the farmers' livelihoods, the environment and everyone's health.
 
“It is continuation of people’s endeavour to protect their food, agriculture, environment and sovereignty of country. In Chandigarh Yatra has two public programs one at Panjab University Student’s Centre and main program at Plaza, Sector 17. Famous singer and thinker Rabbi Shergill will address the main program”. Told Neeraj Atri Convenor of Chandigarh Chapter of Yatra. He further elaborates that a coordination committee was formed consisting of more then two dozen organisations and groups from Tricity.      

“We all need to force the government to take a new approach to agriculture that ensures dignified livelihoods for the farmers and promotes sustainable farming,” said social activist Hemant Goswami.
 
Kisan Swaraj Yatra doesn’t see the problems of agriculture as just those of a distant farmer community in rural India, “but as intimately connected to all of us as citizens and consumers. It is a question of the livelihoods of 700 million people; it is also a question of sustaining our health and environment,” Rajinder Dhawan of Art of Living added.


PunjabNewsLine.com, 30 November, 2010, http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/kisan-swaraj-yatra-reach-chandigarh-2nd-december/26576


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