Samyukta Kisan Morcha not to nominate representative to govt farm panel

New Delhi: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions, on Tuesday rejected the government's committee on minimum support price, saying it will not nominate anyone to the panel SKM said the "so-called farmer leaders" who supported the now-repealed farm laws are panel members.

In its official statement, the SKM alleged that the government has included five of its "loyalists", who openly advocated the three "anti-farmer" laws, in the committee and all of them are either directly associated with the BJP-RSS or support their policies.

"These five people spoke openly in favour of all three anti-farmer laws and most of them have been spewing venom against the farmers' movement," stated the statement issued by five SKM leaders --- Pal, Hannan Mollah, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Yudhveer Singh and Yogendra Yadav.