Tag: Samyukta Kisan Morcha

On a day when registrations under the controversial Agnipath scheme began for at least one branch of the country's armed forces, farmers, joined by workers, took to the streets in several states to press for the withdrawal of the Centre's new armed forces recruitment policy. At the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), demonstrations were held at block, village and district levels in many parts of the country on Friday. The call to protest was also supported by 10 Central Trade Unions. The farmers' organisation, which had earlier spearheaded the nationwide movement that repealed the three contentious farm legislation last year, said that the new scheme is part of a "wider campaign" of the Narendra Modi – led Central government to "establish company rule over agriculture." It deman...