Bhartiya Kisan Sangh leaders and commission agents of agricultural produce market committee (APMC) in Rajkot ended their indefinite hunger strike on the fourth day on Sunday after local BJP leader Devraj Sakhiya gave them a written assurance that their demands pertaining to crop insurance, irrigation water and procurement by government of their produce would be met.
Sakhiya, the president of Rajkot district unit of the BJP and chairman of Rajkot APMC went to the camp of the fasting farmer leaders on the yard of Rajkot APMC and handed the agitators a letter signed by him after hold long discussions with them. “Farmers’ demand demands pertaining to crop insurance, desilting check-dams and to introduce Bhavantar (Bhugtan) Yojana in Gujarat seem very reasonable and appropriate. The satisfactory way for the government (to end farmers’ protest) would to accept reasonable demands of farmers,” Sakhiya stated in his letter.