Farmers Movement Archive

Farm outfits get buses to take activists to protest sites

Barnala: Besides arranging tractors for farming activities or tents to save farmers from vagaries of weather at protest sites, the farm groups of Punjab are also arranging for buses to ferry protesters from one place to another. At some of the places, the district or block level units of the farm organisations have made arrangements of transportation instead of hiring various modes of transport to reach the designated places of protests or common works of the units. Various units of farm organisations BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) and BKU (Ekta Sidhupur) have arranged their own buses. Other farm outfits are also not lagging behind. The Bhadaur, Mehla Chowk, Lehra units of BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) have purchased own buses. The Bhadaur unit in Barnala district has even prepared a bed-cum-platform in the rear of the bus for women, older or sick persons for the purpose of taking rest while in transit. Jasbir Singh of Bhadaur, who drives the bus, said the bus ferries normally 50 activists. “We had spent Rs 4.6 lakh for preparing the bus and have been using it to take people to borders of Delhi at protests against farm laws. Following a call for protests at offices of the deputy commissioners against the killing of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, we took the activists in the bus without waiting to hire any other mode of transport,” he added. Balwant Singh of BKU Sidhupur’s Sehjara unit in Barnala said, “We arranged our own minibus for the convenience of activists.” Pics: Buses of BKU Ugrahan, BKU Sidhupur

The Times of India

2021-10-07

Chandigarh