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, […]
361st day, 22nd November 2021: A massive Kisan Mahapanchayat was held today at Lucknow. Family members of martyrs of Lakhimpur Kheri Massacre attended the Mahapanchayat and were felicitated on stage by SKM leaders. In Lucknow today, the SKM’s Kisan Mahapanchayat was a grand show of strength of the farmers. Dozens of SKM leaders were […]
The BJP-RSS is trying to break the agrarian Shudra unity, but this unity is consolidating as a result of the ongoing protests against the farm laws. Harinder Happy argues how these pro-corporate farm laws are an attack on the agrarian Shudra identity and explains the efforts of the BJP-RSS to break this unity in the […]