Sonepat, January 15
Samyukta Kisan Morcha said on Saturday that farmer organisations that are planning to contest next month’s elections will no longer be part of the joint front.
The SKM said its decision stands at least until its next meeting.
Twenty-two farmer unions in Punjab announced last month that they would contest next month’s assembly elections under the name Sanyukt Samaj Morcha.
The SSM has already announced some of its candidates. Balbir Singh Rajewal, president of a faction of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, is among those whose names have been announced.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a joint front of over farmers’ unions that spearheaded protests against three controversial agriculture laws that the Parliament passed in 2020, has maintained that it wants to remain an apolitical movement.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha says farmer bodies contesting Punjab polls are not part of it
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