The Chief Minister of Punjab Bhagwant Singh Mann has invited the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) to discuss their demands on March 3, said the farm leaders on Saturday.
CM Mann sent the meeting invite following SKM's announcement of a week-long sit-in in Chandigarh starting on March 5 to support their various demands, including MSP.
The letter from the chief minister's office, shared by farmers, cites that the SKM has been invited for a meeting, to be chaired by the Mann, on March 3 at the Punjab Bhavan here.
The SKM, which had led the 2020 agitation against the now-repealed three farm laws, is demanding the rejection of the Centre's draft National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing, a legal guarantee to minimum support price as per the Swaminathan Commission report.
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They are also demanding the implementation the state's agricultural policy, purchase of six crops including basmati, maize, moong, potato at MSP by the state government, a law for debt settlement, ensuring canal water to every field and the payment of sugarcane arrears.
It is also demanding stopping "forcible" acquisition of land for the Bharatmala projects and a resolution against the National Education Policy.
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