Farmers Movement Archive

Mahila kisan panchayat at Kandela today

JIND: The first mahila kisan panchayat at the khap chabutra of Kandela village in this district on Thursday will support the farmers’ agitation against three agri-marketing laws. Women from various districts of Haryana will participate. Punjabi actress Sonia Mann and the agitation’s women faces such as Sudesh Goyat and Santosh Dahiya will address the mahila kisan panchayat. The women of Kandela and nearby villages are in preparation for the past few days. Kandela’s Sudesh Devi, a key organiser of the panchayat, said: “The khap chabutra is where men have earlier planned big agitations. For the first time, women will hold their panchayat there. Many women activists of Haryana and Punjabi singers are invited to the event.” For decades, Kandela is the state capital of farmers’ movements. Rakesh Tikait of the BKU organised the first mahapanch- ayat at the village on February 3 to set off a chain of similar national-level events. From going to the Delhi and toll plaza protests, preparing and serving langar at the sites, tending to the fields in the absence of men camped there, and sending aid to them from the village-level collections, the women of Jind district or the Bangar belt have worked a lot during the agitation. They have cordoned the BJP-JJP leaders, taken out tractors parades, and observed mahila kisan diwas in the district.

The Times of India

2021-03-18

Chandigarh