Tractor Parade by SKM on Republic Day at 500 Districts

New Delhi: All-India General Body meeting of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for intensifying struggle of farmers and farmworkers in 2024 to achieve the main demands MSP@C2+50% for all crops and procurement, freedom from debt-trap through loan waiver, halting privatisation of electricity, dismissal and prosecution of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni (the and the main conspirator behind the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre of farmers) etc.

SKM State Units in 20 states shall conduct massive Jana Jagaran Campaign from 10th to 20th January 2024 across India through door-to-door visits and distribution of leaflets. The aim of this mass campaign is to expose the pro-corporate economic policies of the BJP led Modi Government, detrimental to the interest of farmers, workers and people at large, causing large scale unemployment, uncontrolled price rise, poverty, indebtedness and unbridled rural to urban migration. The Campaign is against the Modi Governments’ narrative of corporate raj based development dependent on GDP rate and India become three trillion-dollar economy that hides the decline in the per capita income, growing income inequality and denial of minimum support price to farmers and minimum wage to workers. The farmer and worker activists will visit households and distribute leaflets and ensure massive participation of the people in the forthcoming joint and coordinated struggle actions against corporate exploitation under the patronage of RSS-BJP rule. State level coordination committees will meet immediately to prepare for the campaign to target to cover at least 40% of the 30.40 crores households.

SKM shall hold Tractor Parade on 26th January, Republic Day of 2024 at district level in all the States and Union Territories. It is expected that the parade shall be held in at least 500 districts. SKM appeals to farmers to join the official Republic Day Parade in great numbers and after the conclusion of the formal Parade, the Tractor Parade will be held. The farmers participating in the Tractor Parade will fly-high the National Flag along with the flags of the constituent organisations. Farmers will take pledge to protect the principles of Democracy, Federalism, Secularism and Socialism enshrined in the Constitution of India. Along with tractors, other vehicles and motor bikes also will join the parade.

SKM has called on the farmers across India to make the Jana Jagaran Campaign and Tractor Parade successful to mark the determination to defeat the corporate communal nexus that exploits and divides people through communal and casteist polarisation. The struggle will be intensified till all the demands are met by the Union Government.