SKM Holds 10,000 Strong Victory Rally at Thiruvarur in Tamil Nadu

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) held a 10,000-strong massive Victory Rally on December 29, 2021 at Thiruvarur in Tamilnadu to mark the historic success of the farmers’ struggle over the forces of corporate communalism. Several Kisan organisations including both the Kisan Sabhas and others had mobilised well. Women came in large numbers.

The huge rally with traditional dances and songs marched through the main roads of the city and culminated in a massive public meeting. It was presided over by K V Ponnaiyan and was addressed by AIKS (Shukla Lane) president Dr Ashok Dhawale, AIKS (Ajoy Bhawan) general secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan, AIKS (Shukla Lane) state general secretary P Shanmugham and AIKS (Ajoy Bhawan) state president S Gunasekaran.

S Thambusamy, V S Kaliyaperumal, P S Masilamani, V Amrithalingam, V Subramaniyan, Mary Lillybai, Chandramohan, Kalivappan, Bos, P S Kaliraj, K B Elangiran, Pasumaivalavan, Ponnuthai and other leaders also addressed the meeting.

All the speakers congratulated the farmers and workers of Tamilnadu who led massive solidarity actions with the Delhi Kisan struggle for over one year, and hundreds of them also came and stayed at the Delhi borders for several days.

While explaining the significance of the victory of getting the three Farm Laws repealed, the speakers also declared that the struggle for legal guarantee of a remunerative MSP and other vital peasant demands, for the repeal of the four Labour Codes, and against selling off the country through the reckless privatisation drive of the Modi regime would be intensified in the coming days.

They also scathingly attacked the BJP-RSS and their henchmen for their attacks on democracy, secularism, federalism, socio-economic justice and the Constitution itself, and gave a clarion call for intense and widespread resistance to these attacks.

Farmer leaders who had faced jail in Tamilnadu under the previous AIADMK state government for having taken part in solidarity actions with the farmers’ struggle were felicitated by Dr Ashok Dhawale and Atul Kumar Anjaan.