Farmers Movement Archive

SKM to burn copies of farm laws outside BJP-JJP leaders’ houses in Haryana

Sonepat, May 28The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Friday decided to burn copies of three farm Acts outside the residences of MPs and MLAs of the BJP and JJP on June 5.Besides, many senior leaders have called farmers to Delhi borders to intensify the protest under a special campaign from May 28 to June 10.A new forum Bharatiya Kisan Mazdoor Federation (BKMF) too has been formed to strengthen the SKM and farmers’ protest.Vikas Sisar, a farm leader from Hisar, said it had been decided during an SKM meeting at Singhu on Friday that the farmers would gherao the residences of BJP-JJP MLAs and MPs in Haryana. He said the farmers would also protest outside the residences of leaders of the BJP and its alliance parties across the country on June 5.Besides, the SKM also gave a call to the farmers to gherao and to burn the copies of the farm Acts at the SDM and DC offices in those states where the BJP is not the ruling party, he added. The SKM appealed to the farmers to peacefully protest on June 5.Meanwhile, senior leaders Gurnam Singh Charuni of Haryana and Surjeet Singh Phul of Punjab, in a video message, announced the constitution of the BKMF.In their video message, they said the BKMF would work under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha to strengthen the protest at Delhi borders. They also clarified that it was a group of farmer unions only. Charuni said some groups, which had been working for a long time, but were feeling ignored in the protest, had made their own collective group — BKMF. “We will make a five-member committee of the group and a convener of the group,” he said.Kulwant Singh Sandhu, general secretary, Jamhoori Kisan Sabha, said maximum farm leaders had gone to Punjab and Haryana to strengthen the morcha in coming days.The meeting of 32 groups of farmer unions of Punjab is scheduled for May 31, he added.

The Tribune

2021-05-29