NEW DELHI : More than 30,000 farmers from across the country are expected to march to Parliament on Friday, demanding a special three-week joint parliament session to discuss the agrarian crisis, a one-time loan waiver, and remunerative prices for agriculture products including horticulture.Thousands of farmers entered the capital city on Thursday from five different routes to participate in the ‘Kisan Mukti March’ under the banner of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC). Committee officials said more than 200 farmers’ organisations from different parts of the country are participating in the two-day agitation. Activists and leaders including Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav and Raju Shetti will address the agitating farmers.Yadav, president of Swaraj India party and one of the working group members of AIKSCC, said the main demand of the farmers was to pass two bills — Freedom from Debt Bill, which will provide immediate crop loan waiver to indebted farmers, and the Farmers Right to Guaranteed Remunerative Minimum Support Price for Agricultural Commodities Bill 2018. There are several young widows carrying photographs of their husbands who had committed suicide due to mounting debt among the protesters gathered at Ramlila Maidan “My husband committed suicide by drinking pesticide as we had Rs 7.50 lakh debt,” said Rama Devi, who came from Nagaram village in Warangal district of Telangana, holding a framed photograph of her husband. “I tried to do farming but it was not remunerative. So I have now given my 5 acre land on rent and work in a hotel to run my family. A loan waiver or assistance will be helpful,” she told ET. Devi said if she gets assistance she will go back to farming. “It’s a much more respectful thing to do.”This is the second major farmers’ protest being held in the capital in two months. “We will have to keep coming to Delhi to be heard by political parties,” said Raju Shetti of Swabhimani Shetkari Saghtana who came with farmers from Maharashtra. “Mere assurances will not work as farmers want result. There is no seriousness to waive crop loans too. If GST can be passed in a late night session, so why can’t we have a joint parliament session to discuss farmers’ crisis?”Farmers from Tamil Nadu Kisan Sabha are demanding immediate relief to coconut and paddy farmers hit by the recent Gaja cyclone, while farmers from Uttar Pradesh are demanding timely payment of sugarcane dues for this season. “We have just sold sugarcane worth Rs 2.5 lakh to Kesar sugar mill in Baheri village in Bareilly district, but not got any money,” said Vicky Chaudhary, a young farmer from Baheri tehsil in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh.“We have yet to be paid Rs 3.5 lakh of the previous year too. Why can’t the government have a mechanism to ensure we get payment on time?” said Chaudhary who holds a master’s degree in agriculture. Several farmers also raised concerns about not getting the assured MSP for pulses, paddy and cotton, apart from falling milk and horticulture crop prices.