Sonepat, January 15
Samyukta Kisan Morcha said on Saturday that farmer organisations that are planning to contest next month’s elections will no longer be part of the joint front.
SKM leaders
Gurnam Chaduni of Samyukta Sangharsh Party (SSP) has threatened to field its candidates in all 117 assembly constituencies after issues cropped up over seat sharing with Samyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM).
Riding on the sentiments generated by the year-long farmers' protests, the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha and Gurnam Singh Chaduni's Samyukta Sangharsh Party could give the big parties a run for their money.
Twenty-two unions of farmers, which were part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to protest three contentious farm laws, on Saturday announced to form a political front ‘Samyukta Samaj Morcha’ to.
Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella outfit representing the farmers' unions, announced that it will not contest the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab.