Farmers' rally violence, a 'deep-rooted' conspiracy: Samyukt Kisan Morcha

Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Wednesday condemned the violence during the farmers' tractor rally and said that yesterday's events were a deep-rooted conspiracy against the peaceful and strong farmers' struggle and had exposed and isolated the anti-farmer forces clearly.

"It was a deep-rooted conspiracy to knock down the peaceful and strong farmers' struggle. Yesterday's events exposed and isolated the anti-farmer forces clearly," said Samyukt Kisan Morcha in a statement.

Most of the farmers' orgsations that are part of the ongoing agitation, today held an emergency meeting under the chairmanship of Balbir Singh Rajewal.

The concerned orgsations discussed the violent incidents in New Delhi and concluded that Union Government has been severely shaken by the peasant agitation. Therefore, a conspiracy was hatched with the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee and others against the peaceful struggle of other farmer orgsations, who had set up their own separate protest site after 15 days of the beginning of the agitation. They were not a part of the orgsations which jointly undertook the struggle, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha statement said.

When the farmer orgsations declared a programme of Kisan Parade on 26 January, anti-social elements like Deep Sidhu and others, along with the said farmer orgsation attempted to torpedo the agitation, the statement further said.

"Under this conspiracy, the said Kisan orgsation and other persons announced that they would march on Ring Road and unfurl a flag on the Red Fort. As a corollary of conspiracy, the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee started marching on the Ring Road, two hours before the scheduled march of the struggling orgsations," said Samyukt Kisan Morcha.

All the constituents of Samyukt Kisan Morcha strongly condemned this incident.

"The struggling orgsations appealed to the farmers to stay on the protest venues and continue a peaceful struggle. The farmers' orgsations resolved to continue this agitation and harshly condemned the government and its administration, the said farmers' orgsation and anti-social elements, who tried to damage the peaceful farmers' struggle," Samyukt Kisan Morcha added.

An emergency meeting of 32 orgsations was called today to chalk out the future programme. All the farmers' leaders were present at the meeting.

( With inputs from ANI )