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| AIKS takes out protest, demands loan waiver | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 9: On the Joint call of Centre of India Trade Union (CITU) and All India Kissan Sabha (AIKS) for Jail Bharo Andolan, Jammu & Kashmir Kissan Tehrik and Trade Unions affiliated with State CITU held a protest demonstration in support of their demands like complete farm loan waiver, loan at minimum interest @ 4%, implementation of recommendations of M.S Swaminathan Report, legal provision granting minimum support price, provision of pension to farmers and Agricultural laborers upto Rs. 5000/- pm, Rs. 18000/- minimum wages for all workers, contain price rise, against pro- employer labour reforms and disinvestment of PSU, against contract system, etc. A large number of farmers and workers across the Jammu Region attended the protest shouting slogans against the government and courted arrests.
While addressing the farmers and workers G.N Malik, General Secretary, Jammu & Kisan Tehrik said that rise of 42% in the number of farmers' suicide during 2014-15, one in every 30 minutes, and the large number of hunger deaths in different parts of the country, instead of implementing its poll promise of minimum support price as per Swaminathan Committee recommendations, the BJP government meets farmers' demands of MSP and loan waiver with bullets and killing as was witnessed in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh. He further said that at the same time, bad loans of willful corporate defaulters amounting to more than Rs. 1.91 lakh crores were written off during three financial year of Modi regime. |
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