SKM announced that farmer unions will restart agitation on pending demands of guaranteed MSP Law, loan waiver, crop insurance, farmers’ and farm workers pension, rolling back privatisation of power and other demands. Groundxero | July 15, 2024 In a press release issued by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on 11th July 2024 at Press Club […]
SKM, a collective platform of farmers’ unions across India, has appealed to the farmers across the country to extend support and solidarity to the farmers of Palestine, and urged the Indian government to do everything to stop the massacre of Palestinian children and women in Gaza. Groundxero | April 22, 2024 The Samyukta Kisan […]
SKM has released a leaflet – Why RSS is Angry with Farmers – as part of its campaign to Expose, Protest, Punish BJP, and to build a bigger movement on its demands. The leaflet appeals to all patriotic forces in India to come together to isolate and expose the divisive ideology of the RSS that spreads […]
Reports of effigy burning, torch light procession and demonstration by farmers to protest murder of the young farmer Shubhkaran Singh received from all the states of India. Workers, student, women and youth widely participated in the protest action reflecting anger among people against state repression of farmers. SKM has called for observing 26 February 2024 as […]
The 21 Point Charter of Demands released by SKM and JPCTUs in context of the all India Grameen Bandh and Industrial / Sectoral Strike on 16th February 2024. Groundxero| 15th February, 2024 Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations has called Grameen Bandh and Industrial […]
Groundxero | 12th February, 2024 The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which led the historic farmers’ struggle in 2020-21 against the three pro-corporate farm laws enacted by the Union government has expressed its strong discontent and anger against the dictatorial manner in which the Modi government is handling the democratic mode of protests of the farmers […]
Groundxero | 23 Jan 2024 Narendra Modi has promised freedom from indebtedness and doubling of income to the farmers during the 2014 Lok Sabha election. But the reality is that thousands of distressed farmers in the country are committing suicide every year. One lakh four hundred and seventy four farmers have committed suicide during the […]
The Delhi police today (May 28) have forcefully detained Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia while they were trying to move towards the new Parliament building for a women’s ‘Mahapanchayat’. After the protesting wrestlers were pushed into prison buses and taken to an unknown location, the police officers began clearing the protest site by removing […]
Delhi, 25th January, 2023 The Supreme Court, today, granted interim bail for eight weeks to Ashish Mishra (son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra), the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri killings. On October 3, 2021 an SUV allegedly belonging to Mishra’s convoy had run over farmers returning from […]
Today, on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the historic “Delhi Chalo” movement, millions of farmers marched and rallied in state capitals of India at the “RAJ BHAWAN CHALO” call given by the SKM. The protest marks the beginning of the next phase of the farmers’ protest till all the demands including “Karz Mukti […]
GroundXero Report : 4 August 2022 Once again, the Narendra Modi government reneges on its promise to the farmers. In a stark betrayal of its own written assurance given to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the Union government is planning to place and pass the controversial Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 in the ongoing parliament session. […]
SKM CONDEMNS POLICE BRUTALITY ON FARMERS IN WEST BENGAL’S FARAKKA TO FORCEFULLY ERECT ADANI GROUP’S HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICITY POWER-LINE. Samyukt Kisan Morcha has condemned the Govt. of West Bengal for forcefully taking land and right-of-way from farmers, including horticulture farmers, at Farakka area of Murshidabad district of West Bengal, for Adani Group’s grid power-lines. […]
*Pushing the responsibility of farmer’s income on the states a new scheme of the Union Government* *Unexpected increase in the prices of fertilizers and diesel exposed the sham of the Kisan Samman Nidhi – Government’s record regarding farmer welfare exposed by the revelations of the Standing Committee report* Samyukta Kisan Morcha expresses grave […]
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) reacting to the Allahabad High Court’s order granting bail to Ashis Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre of farmers said that the order blurs the hope of any fair investigation and justice being delivered in the heinous crime by a Union Minister’s son. A GroundXero report. 10 February […]
Today, the Farmers’ movement to repeal the three farm laws completed one year of its historic struggle. In nationwide protest programs held on the occasion — tens of thousands of farmers assembled at protest sites on Delhi borders — at Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur. Lakhs of farmers took part in the solidarity rallies, marches, […]