Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers’ march to Parliament on November 29

Panipat, November 9Firm on the demand for the repeal of three farm laws and legal guarantee for the MSP, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of the protesting farmer unions, which is spearheading the farmers’ movement, on Tuesday announced to hold a march towards Parliament from Tikri and Ghazipur borders during the Parliament’s winter session, scheduled to start on November 29.Besides, the SKM gave a call to the farmers of six states to assemble at the Delhi borders to mark the one year of the farmers’ movement on November 26.It was decided at a three-hour-long meeting of the SKM, held in the Kisan Andolan office at Singhu Border, on Tuesday.Kulwant Singh Sandhu, general secretary, Jamhuri Kisan Sabha and Major Singh Punnawal, general secretary, AIKS said that it was decided unanimously to move towards Parliament during the winter session.As the government was saying in Supreme Court that they had removed the barricades from the Tikri and Ghazipur borders, hence the SKM had unanimously decided to move to Parliament from these two borders, said Sandhu.A delegation of 500-500 farmers from each border (Tikri and Ghazipur), from where the Delhi police have removed the barricades recently, in their tractor-trailers would move towards Parliament from November 29 till the winter session ends, he said.The farmers would move peacefully and in full discipline. It was decided that where the government will stop the farmers’ delegation, they would start their protest camp there, said Major Singh.It was also decided at the SKM’s meeting that the number of farmers could be increased after reviewing the situations day by day, Sandhu asserted.It was also decided that all farm unions in the SKM would mobilise farmers of six states — Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan — at all Delhi borders to hold large meetings to mark the first anniversary of the farmers’ movement on November 26, the SKM leaders said. Homage will be paid to more than 650 “martyrs” in this struggle so far.

The Tribune

2021-11-10