Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Cabinet tender resignation
The development comes hours after Dushyant Chautala met BJP national president JP Nadda in New Delhi.
With meet between the farmers' leaders and Haryana government on Friday failed to reach any consensus on various demands of peasant communities, including farm loan waiver and implementation of Swaminathan Commission's report, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) announced a statewide protest from August 9.
The meeting was held between the BKU leaders and Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare minister OP Dhankar, lasted for more than an hour but failed to reach an accord with farmers' leaders continued to stick their demands were not accepted by the state government.
Talking to The Statesman, BKU state president Ratan Singh Mann said that the government was not ready to listen to us, in fact, we were invited by the government itself for the talk but not paid attention to our demands.
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"Proposal for the talk was just an eyewash, the government has already decided to make fools of us. Now the BKU has decided to begin statewide protest against the government from coming August 9," Mann added.
He said that the protest would be called as "Karza Chhodo ya Satta Chhodo" (wave off loan or resign from the government). It would be started from CM's own constituency Karnal, Mann added.
Apart from implementation of Swaminathan Commission report's and farm loan waiver, the BKU has been demanding constitution of Kisan-Mazdoor Pension Aayog and Kisan-Mazdoor Karza Mukti Aayog.
Earlier on June 21, the BKU had mark the day as Kisan Hathyog (determination) Day in 12 districts, when the protesting farmers performed 'Shirshasana' (headstand) expressing their resentment against the government. Opposition parties in Haryana are already staging protests in support of the farmers.
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