Farmers Movement Archive

Panchayats’ resolution: One family member must join farmers’ protest

Tarn Taran, January 31 More than 150 panchayats out of the total 550 in the district, along with the gram sabhas, at meetings organised at respective villages on Sunday passed a resolution to support the farmers’ agitation. The panchayats and the gram sabhas decided that one member of each family in villages would take part in the farmers’ protest on Delhi borders. The family denying taking part in the morcha would be fined Rs 1,500. The panchayat of Fazalpur village in Khadoor Sahib block held a meeting under the chairmanship of sarpanch Mangal Singh. Members of the panchayat and representatives of all families participated in the meeting. Harpreet Singh, a panchayat member, said in the resolution, it was resolved that in case the participant became a victim of any untoward incident the villagers and the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab, would jointly compensate the affected family. Harnandan Singh, District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO), confirmed that as many as 150 panchayats along with gram sabhas had passed resolutions to support the farmers’ agitation and appealed to the villagers to take part in the farmers’ morcha on Delhi borders. There are a total of 550 panchayats in the district and more panchayats were expected to pass such resolutions in the coming days. Besides, activists of an NGO, ‘Sach Da Saath’, headed by Gurdev Singh Sandhu, were making appeals to villagers to accompany them to the protesting sites on Delhi borders on February 3 as they were going there on tractor-trolleys. The activists were appealing to the villagers through the public address system of the village gurdwara concerned. While confirming the announcements, residents of Lalu Ghuman, Mannan and many other villages said the NGO was appealing to villagers that if anybody wanted to carry his own tractor-trolley, the organisation would provide free diesel worth Rs 5,000 for his tractor-trolley. There were reports that residents of every village have decided to take part in the agitation by one or the other way.

The Tribune

2021-02-01