Swaraj Abhiyan to approach SC to demand independent committee

Swaraj Abhiyan today organised a public hearing-cum legal camp at Bathinda, for cotton farmers of Punjab who are "suffering losses" and said that they will approach the Supreme Court to demand an independent committee for compensation to the affected peasants.
Swaraj Abhiyan is a group formed by ousted AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav.
Bhushan, a noted Supreme Court lawyer, while addressing the concerns of farmers, said that the current model of farming has become unsustainable.
He said that Swaraj Abhiyan will approach the Supreme Court to demand an "Independent committee/commission for compensation to affected farmers, criminal proceedings against responsible bureaucrats, ministers, drug companies, dealers etc and the need for compensation to affected labourers too."

Addressing the gathering of farmers, Bhushan, according to a release issued by the Abhiyan, stated that "economic divide, communalism and environment are the issues which are of serious concern in today's times. We need to fight unitedly in an organised manner."
Today's programme at Bathinda saw participation of Dr Dharamvira Gandhi (MP, Patiala), Prof. Manjeet Singh (Convenor, Swaraj Abhiyan Punjab), Tarsem Jodhan (Ex MLA & Working committee member, Swaraj Abhiyan), Ruldu Singh (President, Punjab Kisan Union), Baldev Singh (BKU, Sidhupur), Babu Singh (President, BKU Ugrahan), among others, the release said.
Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav had on December 20 said in Chandigarh that they have decided to fight the case of Punjab's farmers whose crops were destroyed in white fly attack in courts, and claimed the government cannot shirk its responsibility in the supply of "spurious" pesticides to the cotton growers.

He had held that alleged anti-farmer policies and widespread corruption in the government machinery was responsible for the white fly induced destruction of cotton crop in the state this year.