Kisan Sangh to organize signature campaign across Gujarat seeking special session of Parliament on farmer’s issues
September 11, 2016
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat unit of Bhartiya Kisan Sangh today said that it will organize a statewide signature campaign from September 20 to 30 in support of its central management committee’s resolution demanding a special session of the parliament on various issues pertaining to the farmers of the country.
State General Secretary of the farmer’s outfit affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vitthal Dudhatra today said that the decision in this regard was taken in the two day special executive meet of the Gujarat unit which concluded here.
He said that in the meeting attended by around 120 representatives of 28 districts of the outfit, it has also been decided that they will meet the MP’s of their respective constituencies on October 16 in this regard.
The demand letter singed by farmers from thousand of villages will be handed over to Loksabha Speaker Mrs Sumitra Mahajan, he said.
Mr Dhudhatra said that in the special executive meet, a resolution was also passed demanding compensation and assistance for the farmers from Gujarat government in the wake of the natural and paste caused damage to their crops especially of the cotton and groundnut in the current season.
He said that various constructive issues pertaining to farmers of Gujarat and the organization were also discussed in the meeting presided by national general secretary Dineshji Kulkarni.
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