The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, assimilation of various farmer
bodies, announced on Wednesday a set of new plans to bolster its protest
against the newly passed farm laws for the upcoming two months, including a
foot march to the Parliament in the month of May, reported PTI.

Addressing a press conference, farmer leader Gurnaam Singh
Chaduni said the date for the march has not been finalised yet, while also
noting that the march would include not just farmers, but women, unemployed persons
and labourers who supported the demonstrations in recent months.

Chaduni and other leaders also shared that they were planning
to form a committee which would control the protestors in the event of
demonstrations getting out of control, while expressing that the march would be
peaceful in nature.

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“We will form a committee to let the protestors know
what to do in case there is police action during the march.

“It will also be made clear to them that SKM condemns
all kinds of violence. So the protestors will know that if there is any damage
of property by them, they will have to serve the penalty,” a farmer leader
said.

Farmer leaders also announced their plans to block the
Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway for 24 hours on April 10.

“We will be blocking the KMP expressway on April 10 for
24 hours, that is from 11 am on April 10 to 11 am on the next day.

“We will be doing this because the government has not
been listening to us. It has been sleeping. This is to wake up the
government,” another farmer leader said.

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An event to honour the farmers who have lost their lives
during the agitation will be organised on May 6.

“Soil from different parts of the country will be
brought to these borders and a memorial will be created for all our brothers
who lost their lives while participating in this movement,” a farmer
leader said.

Other events that will be organised by the farmers as part
of strengthening their agitation against the farm laws include the “FCI
(Food Corporation of India) Bachao Divas” on April 5 that will be marked
by the “gherao of FCI offices across the country”.

The farmers also called for the celebration of the
“Sanvidhan Bachao Divas” (Save the Constitution Day) on April 14 to
mark the birth anniversary of Bhim Rao Ambedkar.

According to one of the farmer leaders, the Constitution of
India “is under danger” from the government.

Similarly, Labour Day on May 1 will also be celebrated at
the Delhi borders, where all programmes during the day will be dedicated to
“mazdoor-kisan unity”.

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A separate press conference was also held at the Ghazipur
border protest site by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha in which issues like the impact
of the farm laws on sugarcane farmers, sharecroppers, and animal husbandry,
among others were discussed.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court appointed three-member
committee on the agri laws also submitted its report to the apex court that was
prepared after consultation with concerned stakeholders.

Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been
projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will
remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the
country.

The protesting farmers, on the other hand, have expressed
apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety
cushion of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and do away with the
“mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them at the mercy of big
corporates.