New Delhi, 15 Oct, 2024 (Daljeet Kaur)
Samyukt Kisan Morcha, SKM has appealed to all concerned to learn lessons from Haryana election results and work vehemently to unite farmers and the working people in villages and workplaces to fight the corporate loot and anti-farmer policies of the BJP-NDA led Union Government.
Even though the majority of the people had voted against the anti-worker, anti-farmer BJP, the opposition political parties failed to displace it from governance due to disunity and internal conflicts among them.
BJP’s tall claim of growing people’s support in its favour is false and misleading as 60.1 percent of voter’s casted vote against it. BJP secured only 39.9 % votes – 7% less than the 46% they got in the Lok Sabha election. The toiling masses should recognize the RSS-BJP game plan to divide workers and Farmers on caste and religion.
The Election Manifesto of the opposition political parties did not categorically include legal guarantee for MSP@C2+50%, comprehensive loan waiver to the farmers and farm workers and minimum wage and social security to the workers thus, failed to arouse and rally maximum sections of the farmers and workers in support of them.
The SKM and Central Trade Unions had convened the Kisan-Mazdoor Mahapanchayat at Hisar, organised village level Kisan – Mazdoor Mahapanchayat and observed 28th September 2024, the birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh as anti-corporate day in villages as part of the “Expose, Oppose, Defeat BJP” Campaign.
These campaigns helped to rally the majority of the workers and farmers to vote against the pro-corporate BJP. SKM congratulates the people of Haryana for putting BJP in visible minority out of the polled votes.
Insufficient unity of the Kisan movement and lack of network of workers and farmers movements across the villages to decisively unite the people caused the failure to isolate and oust BJP.
SKM appeals for greater unity of the Kisan organisations and will take efforts to reach out to all sections of working people who still remain unaware that the acute agrarian crisis and the extreme unemployment stems from the neo-liberal; pro-corporate development policies being pursued by the BJP-NDA combine.
Intense and massive struggle in villages and workplaces, based on Kisan-worker unity against the corporate loot as witnessed during the historical farmers struggle at Delhi borders is necessary to create conducive political environment to change the pro-corporate regime and achieve the genuine demands of MSP@C2+50% with guaranteed procurement, comprehensive loan waiver, minimum wage and social security to workers among others.
