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Farmers set to leave for Delhi in hordes

Tribune News ServiceAmritsar, January 29The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), which has a large following in Tarn Taran and Amritsar districts, said only 30 per cent of their activists came back after taking part in the tractor march on Republic Day.Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, who had been camping on borders in Delhi, said the BJP’s supporters tried to intimidate farmers at Singhu border today on the lines of Gazipur border.He said the objective of the BJP’s workers was to provoke them as a large number of police personnel were deployed by the Centre to take action. He said more groups were getting ready to join the stir. He said farmers from Ferozepur, Tarn Taran and Amritsar were set to leave for Delhi.Gurbachan Singh Chabba of the KMSC said activists from the two districts were at the forefront to ensure support for the protesters. He said volunteers were collecting ration in their tractor-trailers and they were prepared for a long haul. Chabba said the KMSC would burn effigies of the Central Government for three days from February 1.Rattan Singh Randhawa, general secretary, Border Area Sangharsh Committee, said a large number of residents of 232 border villages from the state had visited the protest sites in Delhi at least four times. He said more groups were ready to take part in the stir once again.He said their activists would sit on a hunger strike at Bhandari railway overbridge from tomorrow.

The Tribune

2021-01-30