Farmers Movement Archive

SAD (Sanyukt) protests inflation, BKU seeks aid for wheat crop loss

Activists of SAD-Sanyukt, led by party’s senior vice-president Jagdish Singh Garcha, today held a protest at Mini Secretariat and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner against rising prices, which had made “the lives of common people miserable”.Garcha said the persistent hike in prices of diesel, petrol and other essential items had thoroughly exposed the failure of the Modi-led NDA government at the Centre as well as the Congress government in Punjab. The indifferent attitude of the governments was evident as the government was in collusion with hoarding and profiteering mafia and the people had been left to fend for themselves.In the memorandum, the party stated that it would, in no case, tolerate the loot of people by big business and corporate houses and would take to streets, if required, to defend the rights of the poor.Meanwhile, the Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) activists, led by district president Sadhu Singh Panjeta and district secretary Sudagar Singh Ghudani, also organised a protest and submitted a memorandum to the district administration, calling for immediate disbursement of compensation for damage caused to standing wheat crops at several places during the harvesting season.They said wheat crop had been destroyed by fire in several villages, including Giddri, Bilaspur, Lapran and Ghudani Kalan, but the affected farmers were still waiting for compensation. A memorandum was earlier submitted in this regard on April 19 but it had failed to evoke any response.The BKU threatened to agitate further if the farmers were not compensated within the next 15 days.

The Tribune

2021-07-16