Farmers Movement Archive

SKM mobilises Dalits, students, women for protest tomorrow

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has said associations of labourers, women, students, Dalits and minorities would be roped in for the June 26 event to mark seven months of the farmers’ agitation against the three agricultural laws enacted last year.Farmers at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur border points are gearing up for June 26 and they will observe the day as “Save Agriculture, Save Democracy Day”.The SKM told the media here today that memorandums would be submitted to the President through the Governors of different states on June 26.June 26 also marks the anniversary of Emergency imposed in 1975 by then Congress government.“It is an irony that the BJP leadership, which claims to be the victim of the Emergency, has declared a sort of undeclared emergency in the country, where voices of dissent are suppressed with brutal force,” said Inderjit Singh, vice-president, All-India Kisan Sabha, Haryana unit.Yogendra Yadav, SKM leader, said the BJP regime at the Centre had made emergency-like situation a normal way of life.When asked about the possible solution to the stalemate between farmers and the Centre, he said: “Satta (government) should bow before janata (public).”Jhajjar: Rajya Sabha member Deepender Hooda visited the family of Mukesh Modgil, who died of burn injuries at the Tikri border a week ago after four men associated with the farmers’ agitation allegedly set him on fire, in the district’s Kassar village today.He expressed his condolences, and demanded financial aid and a government job for the deceased’s wife.

The Tribune

2021-06-25

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