Farmers Movement Archive

‘Resolve to see agri laws repealed firmed up with tractor marches’

BATHINDA: A day ahead of eighth round of talks with Union ministers, thousands of tractors marched all around Delhi on Thursday. Farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and other states took out four different tractor marches, wherein a score of senior farm leaders of farm organisations participated. Two marches each were taken out on stretches between Singhu and Tikri borders and Palwal-Gazipur-Shahjahanpur. One march started from Tikri border towards Singhu and other from Singhu towards Tikri, a distance of nearly 60km. The marches met midway and turned back. Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, BKU Rajewal president Babir Singh Rajewal and leaders of almost all the farmer organisations from Punjab participated in the marches, which they described as a trailer of the proposed tractor parade on January 26, if no solution to contentious agriculture laws was found by then. Youngsters were present in a large numbers. Some of the tractors carried as many as 10 persons. For some, the event was was a sort of festival. Farmer organisation BKU Ekta Ugrahan president Joginder Singh Ugrahan told TOI, “Over a thousand tractors from our organisation were put into the marches with thousands of activists riding the machines. We are determined to make the central government repeal the laws.” Farm organisation BKU Ekta Dakonda general secretary Jagmohan Singh, who accompanied Rajewal, said, “The resolve of our enthusiastic activists further firmed up today with the tractor marches as activists put up their full might to show to the government that the farmers are here to stay.”

The Times of India

2021-01-08

Amritsar