All India Farmers Act Coordination Committee and Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan along with around 228 different farmers’ organisations jointly called a nationwide ‘Gramin Bharat bandh’ on January 8.
In Chhattisgarh around 25 organisations linked to farmers, tribals and Scheduled Caste have extended support to it.
The organisations across the state have called to extend support for the shutdown. As per the call, the farmers will stay away from their agriculture related works, will not sell their produce like vegetables, milk, egg, fish and other products.
They will keep the agriculture produce markets closed while also hold road blockades along with sit-in-demonstrations at different places against the policies of state government led by Bhupesh Baghel and central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The key protests are against the entry of both domestic and foreign private companies, withdrawal of policies that are leading to farmers’ suicides, stop adulteration in fertilisers, seeds and insecticides and implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendations.
The demand from Government of Chhattisgarh is monthly pension, making law to make farmers loan-free, providing two years bonus, individual basis crop loss assessment for insurance, restoring the reduced area of crop, returning the acquired unused land to farmers, implementation of forest rights, PESA and 5th Schedule provisions, providing Rs 250 days work under MGNREGA and giving Rs 600 as daily wages and others. They are also demanding non-implementation of CAA and NRC-NPR process.