People from different walks of life including poets, singers, actors and youth on Monday vowed to join the protracted struggle being waged by farmers seeking statutory backing by the Centre for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime.
At a meeting called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisation of farmer unions, to broadbase the ongoing peasant movement, Indian People’s Theatre Association’s A.P. unit honorary president Nalluri Venkateswarulu said a remunerative price for farmers remained elusive even as food prices went beyond the reach of the common man. All sections of people should join the stir by the farmer organisations to achieve their just demands including immediate relief for debt-ridden farmers as the country’s food security was at stake, he said.
