Protesting farmers perform tractor parade on 76th Republic Day

Farmers from various organisations under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) took out a tractor parade at multiple locations across Punjab in support of their demands on India’s 76th Republic Day.

These demands include a legal guarantee on minimum support price



(MSP), which is based on the C2 plus 50 per cent formula given by the Swaminathan committee, a comprehensive loan waiver scheme for farmers and farm workers, no privatisation of electricity, withdrawal of the National Policy Framework on Agriculture Marketing (NPFAM), and debt waiver, among others.