Farmers Movement Archive

Uttarakhand’s 1st farm rally in Ramnagar

Bathinda: The first mahapanchayat of Uttarakhand was organised at Ramnagar on Sunday. Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leader and Kirti Kisan Union vice-president Rajinder Singh Deep Singh Wala addressed the mahapanchayat. He said the government was giving away farmlands to corporates, instead of farmers. “The development projects of PM Narendra Modi government may not have reached forest areas in mountains, but farmers protest has reached there as the peasants are organising themselves against the anti-people government, all across the country,” he said, adding that the killing of young farmer Navreet Singh should be seen as a message to Modi government that this protest was not limited to Punjab. Van Panchayat Sangharsh Samiti leader Tarun Joshi said the Modi government was trying to divide people on caste and religious lines, but the ongoing peasant movement had crushed this agenda. Kisan Sangharsh Samiti leader Deewar Kataria said the land settled by three generations of a family was being handed over to corporate houses.

The Times of India

2021-03-22

Chandigarh