Farmers Movement Archive

SKM’s second Delhi march coming on Shaheed Diwas

BATHINDA: The Sanyukta Kisan Morcha’s Bharat Bandh call only a week before the 90th martyrdom day of freedom fighters Shaheeds Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev, and 10 days into the completion of four months of protests on the Delhi borders, signals a big plan for both events. The SKM has asked people to head to Delhi once more on March 23, men in basanti (yellow) turbans and the women in Basanti dupattas. The nationwide shutdown is called for March 26. BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan said: “Shaheed Bhagat Singh opposed the British laws, while the farmers are into a similar battle against their own government.” Shaheed Bhagat Singh is one of the biggest icons of India and a household name in Punjab, and in 1907, the year he was born, his uncle, Ajit Singh, had started the ‘Pagri Sambhal Jatta’ movement, the slogans of which the farmers have used in their current model of protest. The British colonial government hanged Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev in the Lahore Central Jail on March 23, 1931, and threw their half-burnt bodies into the Sutlej river at Hussainiwala, not far from Lahore, a city that went to Pakistan in 1947. BKU (Ekta-Dhakaunda) general secretary Jagmohan Singh said: “We had even observed the 113th birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh on September 27-28, 2020, during the protests in Punjab and now almost six months later, we are ready to observe his 90th martyrdom day the same way.”

The Times of India

2021-03-17

Amritsar