\u201c\u2018We will undertake a sustained campaign for farmer-friendly policies ahead of the Budget session of Parliament,\u201d Mr. Krishnan said after a joint meeting with the functionaries of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and All India Agricultural Workers\u2019 Union (AIAWU) here to spearhead joint struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201ccorporate-friendly\u201d Bill would pave the way for privatisation of the power sector and also infringe upon the powers of the States, he opined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Objecting to the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s decision to fix meters to the farm pump-sets \u201cat the behest of the BJP-led government at the Centre,\u201d Mr. Krishnan feared that the free power scheme would be scrapped sooner than later on the pretext of making power distribution companies self-sustaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The State government\u2019s promise to continue subsidies should be taken with a pinch of salt, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrime Minister Narendra Modi has failed to keep his promise to double the income of the farmers, who remain clueless on coping with the anti-farmer neo-liberal economic policies pursued vigorously by the saffron party,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Farmers\u2019 incomes would not go up without a law to ensure MSP for the produce as they were now left to fend for themselves with the crude market forces, he opined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFarmers will end up making losses in the wake of market volatility as those in power have abdicated responsibility of market intervention when the prices fell below the MSP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than one lakh farmers had ended their life in the last eight years with farming becoming a losing proposition following implementation of \u201cpro-corporate agrarian policies,\u201d he said, adding that the trend had caught up with the agricultural labourers, who were increasingly finding the going tough in the wake of the COVID-19-induced economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe 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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFarm meters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Follow Kerala example\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n