{"id":501831,"date":"2024-02-14T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=501831"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T09:32:47","slug":"madhura-swaminathan-farmers-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/madhura-swaminathan-farmers-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Swaminathan\u2019s daughter Madhura says farmers are Annadatas, don\u2019t treat them like criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bharat Ratna MS Swaminathan\u2019s daughter and Developmental Economist Madhura Swaminathan said farmers are Annadatas and cannot be treated as criminals as she referred to the government\u2019s response to the farmer&#8217;s protest in Haryana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While addressing an event organised by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Delhi\u2019s Pusa, she said there have been barricades and jails have also been prepared to stop the farmers protesting to press their demands against the Centre in Haryana, adding that, Madhura said farmers are not criminals, they are Annadatas and needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further asserted that the Centre has to find solutions as for any future strategy the government plans, it has to take the farmers with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201c\u2026These are farmers, not criminals\u2026\u201d <br>Dr Madhura Swaminathan, Economist. <br>She is the daughter of Bharat Ratna Prof. MS Swaminathan.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VhI6p85g2g\">pic.twitter.com\/VhI6p85g2g<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Priyanka Chaturvedi\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@priyankac19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/priyankac19\/status\/1757618767226655145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at an event organised to celebrate the conferment of Bharat Ratna to her father and agricultural scientist Swaminathan posthumously, she said that the farmers of Punjab have been marching to Delhi. Citing different reports, she added, that jails are being prepared for them in Haryana, there are barricades, and there are all kinds of things being done to prevent farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among others, the adoption of the Swaminathan Committee report has been one of the demands made by the farmers protesting in Delhi borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The farmers in Haryana and Punjab have various demands, including a law to guarantee Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, pension for farmers, crop insurance and the quashing of FIRs registered against farmers during the 2020 protest. They also planned a tractor march on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on February 13, pledged to provide a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) on crops as per the Swaminathan Commission report if the Congress party is voted to power in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, as protesting farmers made their way to the national capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added saying that said that the decision to give MSP a legal guarantee will have a profound impact on the lives of 15 crore farmer households. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among others, the adoption of the Swaminathan Committee report has been one of the demands made by the farmers protesting in Delhi borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":501835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"MS Swaminathan\u2019s daughter Madhura says farmers are Annadatas, cannot be treated as criminals","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[161980,161989,9279],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/14122120\/Farmers-protest-Feb-13-2024.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501831"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=501831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=501831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->