Farmers Movement Archive

Punjab: Crackdown on, farmers to protest wherever stopped

BATHINDA: With the Haryana government sealing its border with Punjab to not allow farmers to move on to Delhi for the proposed ‘Dilli Chalo’ protest on November 26-27, farm organisations in Punjab have decided to sit on indefinite protests anywhere they are stopped. Farm groups had already prepared strategies to move through Haryana in case of resistance from the state. BKU Ekta Ugrahan had made its activists reach Khanouri border in Sangrur and at Dabwali on Monday evening for making prior preparations and to start langar for those coming for protests. The faction of Bharatiya Kisan Union had chosen both these routes for entering Haryana. Several protesters have occupied places at these two borders with Haryana and are coordinating with farmers from these points. Haryana Police, however, have laid barricades on its side of the state border to stop farmers from moving forward. The organisation had directed activists from Sangrur, Patiala, Mansa, Barnala, Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib to move toward Khanouri, and activists from Bathinda, Muktsar, Moga, Faridkot, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar and Amritsar to move toward Dabwali. The farm organisation burnt effigies of Haryana government at various places across Punjab on Tuesday against the crackdown on farmers trying to cross the border and taking seven members of its Barnala unit into custody. BKU faction’s president, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, and general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri said, “Jagos and mashal marches are being taken out by women and youth at 800 villages in 15 districts of Punjab in last three days.”

The Times of India

2020-11-25

Amritsar