Feudals held responsible for usurping masses' basic rights

A massive Kissan conference has held the feudal lords, waderas, sardars, khans, maliks and makhdooms responsible for usurping the basic human rights of the masses and said that they did not even let them exercise their right of vote freely and according to their conscience. Consequently, a particular class is ruling Pakistan for last six decades.
It demanded of the government to enact laws to end the feudal system, distribution of government lands among landless farmers and tenants, and implementation of land reforms.
The conference also criticised the government for failure to provide DAP fertilisers at cheaper rates. The Kissan conference, held on Sunday in Mouza Kotheywala, a village in Multan suburbs, under the patronage of senior peasant leader Attaullah, and National Workers Party chief Abid Hassan Minto was the chief guest.
The Kissan conference demanded agriculture reforms, fixation of land limits, reduction in fertiliser, seeds and pesticides prices, ownership rights to Pirowal peasants and restoration of subsidy on agriculture power tariff, gas and agriculture inputs.
The Kissan conference also demanded frequent release of irrigation water for crops, prevention from substandard fertilisers and spray mafia, reduction in tube-well power rates, establishment of regular markets for cultivators, reduction in bank mark-up rates and diesel prices.
Minto, addressing the conference, said that the 1970 historic moot had resulted in agricultural reforms of 1972. But, after that, the leftists became silent and now after 37 years they once again had gathered to launch struggle for the poor farmers and workers.
He criticised feudalism and demanded its eradication. He also demanded that all federal departments be given to provinces except defence, currency and communications. Zafar Ran, Mazhar Ran, Attaullah Gujjar, Jamaldin Gujar, and Mehmood Labar strongly criticised the government for failure in curbing price hike of DAP and other phosphoric fertilisers and said that present regime had opted ad hocism and no long term 'policy' was framed as yet.
They said the dealers had hoarded their DAP stocks and farmers were facing difficulties in purchasing the commodity even on inflated price. They said that farmers needed DAP for their orchards, vegetables and just-cultivated sugarcane and increased prices were unjustified considering the government had paid the subsidy on phosphate fertilisers for the Rabi season.
They said that farmers were facing difficulties in purchasing phosphate fertilisers due to the monopoly of some companies while cultivation of cotton had started in Sindh, which needed DAP application.