Farmers urge non-NDA MPs to move pvt bills on MSP guarantee
budget session of Parliament, protesting farmers have approached non-NDA MPs to push for a minimum support price (MSP) guarantee legislation through private members' bills.
Farmers have upped the ante against the BJP-led NDA ahead of the session, which begins on July 22. Two farmer organisations — Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Morcha — which have been leading the protests since February this year, have started approaching MPs to once again push for their demands. The groups have framed a list of demands for all the non-NDA MPs to push through private members' bills during the session.
A beginning is being made with MPs of agrarian states where the two organisations have a good presence. These include Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, UP, Bihar, Andhra, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The second half of Friday's session in the Lok Sabha is reserved for private members' bills. The purpose of the private members' bill is to draw the government's attention to what Opposition MPs see as important issues that need to be addressed through legislation. These are seldom passed and are a way of making the Opposition's point of view known. So far, 14 private members' bills have become laws.
Speaking to ET, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee leader Sarvan Singh Pandher said: «Our representatives in different states are going and meeting all non-NDA MPs to tell them that they had included some of the demands in their manifestos. Yes, they are not in power at the Centre but they should
