Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 27: The Pashupalan Sangarsh Samiti today held a protest demonstration and strongly denounced the imposition of 5 per cent GST hike on dairy products and 12 per cent to 18 per cent on machines/equipments used for preparation and production of dairy products.
Hundreds of activists of Sangarsh Samiti participated in the demonstration with placards and recited slogans against the Modi Government.
Kishore Kumar President of Pashupalan Sangarsh Simiti while addressing to the gathering said that the workers and the common people who were already put to and made to suffer with ever increasing price rise due to the destructive policies of the Modi led BJP Government due to price rise of petroleum products and domestic LPG are now further attacked by this offensive.
He said that imposition of 5 per cent GST hike on dairy products and upto 18 per cent on machines/equipments relates with dairy will effect employment and occupation of more than 9 crores people who are directly and indirectly engaged with dairy trades and crores of consumers of dairy products like milk, curd, cheese, etc who are directly depend on these products will suffer a lot.
“As a result of hike in dairy products the livelihood of all dairy peasants’ will suffer badly”, he said, and calls upon all the dairy traders and people at large to resist these blatant attacks on their lives through the imposition of GST on dairy products and essential items and price hilde wth all force with enmass participation.
He urged the Government to roll back GST on dairy products, implement recommendations of Swaminathan report, grant no exemption to imported milk and dairy products, increase excise duty, link pashupalan occupation with MNREGA in order to lessen the price rise of milk products and also extend it to urban areas, grant subsidy on fodder, distribute the profit of Milk Samities amongst their members, impose restriction on stray animals, arrange and organise animal fairs and till than animals be purchased by the Government itself, grant interest free loan and insurance of all kind of animals and set up first aid animal husbandry nearby.
Others, who spoke were Hari Singh, Regional Secretary CPIM, Om Parkash General Secretary State CITU, Sewa Ram, Sohan Lal, Muzafar Wani and other senior leaders of Kisan Sabha.
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