ANN | New Delhi, 22 June 2022

Observing the Agneepath scheme as anti-military, anti-farmer and anti-national, Samyukta Kisan Morcha has decided to observe a nationwide protest day against Agneepath scheme on Friday, June 24, the day when Agniveer recruitment process will begin.  A memorandum will be submitted to the President of India, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces at the end of the day after peaceful demonstrations at all district, tehsil or block headquarters with the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”, and effigy of the Union Government will also be burnt.

This decision was taken by the seven-member coordination committee of Samyukta Kisan Morcha in its meeting held in Karnal (Haryana) recently. The committee has Dr. Darshan Pal, Hannan Mollah, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Shivkumar Sharma (Kakka ji), Yudhveer Singh, Yogendra Yadav as members.

Samyukta Kisan Morcha has appealed to all the youth opposing this scheme to join this protest day and asked them to respect the dignity of this peaceful protest. The Morcha has appealed to all the mass organisations, mass movements and political parties of the country to join this protest.

The next national meet of Samyukta Kisan Morcha has been scheduled on Sunday, July 3 in Ghaziabad.
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