Farmers Movement Archive

SKM to protesters: No illegal houses on border

Bathinda: The farmer organisations from Punjab have urged the protesters not to construct any permanent structures at the protest sites. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) asked farmers not to build pucca houses for summer at such sites as it was giving authorities reason to take action. Many brick and mortar structures are coming up at the Delhi borders and two FIRs were registered by Kundli police on Friday for multiple storey houses and illegal borewell at Singhu. SKM said of the 151 farmers arrested in various FIRs on or after January 26 violence, 147 have been released on bail so far. Several of those released are back at the protest sites. Release of four more (one from Punjab and three from Haryana) was still awaited. Ranjit Singh from Kajampur village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh district of Punjab, whose face was put under boots of a policeman on January 29 at Singhu border, has been denied bail. Now, the morcha will apply for bail in the Delhi high court. In addition, after a debate in the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, it could be the House of Representatives in Australia that could pick up a petition to discuss farm protest in India. The e-petition has four more days to collect signatures before the house of representatives there could pick it up. It was also stated that seven ‘Kisan Yatras’ on seven different routes are travelling throughout Bihar for the last four days. It was the ninth day of the Kisan Majdoor Jagriti Yatra that started from Uttarakhand and has covered distance of 600 km so far passing through nearly 300 village and towns.

The Times of India

2021-03-15

Chandigarh