Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers’ outfit writes to Haryana CM for passage to Delhi

BATHINDA: Farmers’ organisation Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) has written to Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to allow its activists passage to Delhi on November 25. The organisation has demanded passage through two points of Dabwali and Khanouri borders to enter Haryana and reach Delhi. The outfit has to participate in the national-level protest against the Centre’s farm laws in Delhi on November 26 and 27. Although 30 organisations from Punjab are participating in the protest, BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) plans to head towards Delhi separately from the two routes while the remaining plan to reach Delhi from the National Highway which enters Haryana from Shambhu border in Patiala district. “We have written to the Haryana chief minister to allow our over 1 lakh activists to reach Delhi by passing through Haryana through Dabwali and Khannouri borders. We hope the Haryana government will look into our request,” said BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan. The farm organisation has made it clear that if they are not allowed to move towards Delhi by passing through Haryana, they will sit where they are stopped. Meanwhile, the 30 farm organisations which plan to move towards Delhi have not sought passage from Haryana government so far. “We will not write for providing passage as we have to move in our own country but we will inform the Haryana government about the size of our jatha for which traffic arrangements have to be made,” said farm organisation BKU (Ekta Dakaunda) general secretary Jagmohan Singh. The 30 farm organisations will hold a meeting with Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday. The state government has called them for the meeting ahead of the Dilli Chalo campaign. We will decide what points have to be put before the chief minister before meeting him,” Jagmohan said. Dal Khalsa extends support to farm protest Chandigarh: Dal Khalsa extended its support to the ‘Delhi Chalo’ call given by 30 farmers’ organisations to protest against the contentious farm laws. Party leaders H S Cheema and H S Dhami, in a joint statement, said the BJP-led government has adopted a vindictive approach towards Punjab and the rightful demands of farmers. They said the Narendra Modi government is blackmailing the protesting farmers by stopping good trains to Punjab to pressurise them into clearing rail tracks without conceding to their demands to repeal the laws. “Our activists will join the farmers to march towards Delhi on November 26/27 to tell the Modi government that Punjab is united and its people are determined to take the farmers’ agitation towards its logical conclusion,” they said.

The Times of India

2020-11-21

Amritsar