Farmers Movement Archive

KMSC jatha leaves for Delhi

Farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) left for Delhi to join the agitation against the three farm laws.It was the 12th jatha of the KMSC. The farmers said they were not scared of the Covid in the face of the threat to their livelihood. Most of them left for Delhi in their tractor-trailers.Sarwan Singh Pandher said that nearly 10,000 farmers, including women, were heading to the borders of Delhi to continue the agitation. The adamant attitude of the government is causing physical suffering to thousands of agitating farmers camping on the outskirts of Delhi for the past nearly six months, he said.He said people were collecting money and other resources in villages to consolidate the protest. Defeat of the Narendra Modi government in West Bengal elections was a moral victory of the farmers.Another farmer leader Gurbachan Singh Chabba said the three laws would dismantle the minimum support price system. Big corporate houses will dictate terms and farmers will end up getting less for their crops, he said.The farmers are demanding legal guarantee for the minimum support price and revocation of all three new farm laws.— TNS

The Tribune

2021-05-06

Amritsar