Farmers Movement Archive

Year of stir: Farmers plan march to Tikri on November 25

Karnal, November 12To strengthen farmers’ agitation in Haryana on the completion of a year of their agitation on the Delhi borders against the three agri laws, the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) (Charuni) will hold a foot march from Mohra Mandi in Ambala district to the Tikri border from November 25.Not to repay bank loansWe have decided that no farmer of Haryana and Punjab will repay their loans to the banks if our demands are not met till December 5. Gurnam Singh Charuni, farm leaderThe march will end at the Tikri border on December 5.Farm leaders also announced that no farmer of Haryana and Punjab would repay their loans to the banks if the government did not repeal the three laws and enact MSP guarantee law till December 5.It was the outcome of the state-level meeting of the core committee of the BKU, which lasted for over two and a half hours at Dera Kar Sewa in the city. The meeting was chaired by the president Gurnam Singh Charuni and presided over by women cell president Suman Hooda. The agenda was to discuss the measures on strengthening the agitation.On November 24, the farmers will pay tributes to Sir Chhotu Ram in Sampla on his birth anniversary, said Charuni, adding that on November 25, on the eve of Constitution Day, they would hold a rally in Mohra Mandi, from where farmers will start a foot march for the Tikri border. “We started march towards Delhi last year on November 25,” he added.After crossing Ambala, Karnal, Panipat, and Rohtak districts, the march will reach the Tikri border on December 5, he added.Meanwhile, the farmers will also take part in the programmes fixed by the SKM as the latter has already asked farmers to come in large number on the borders, president maintained.“We have also decided that no farmer of Haryana and Punjab would repay their loans to the banks if our demands are not met till December 5,” Charuni.“We have appealed the farmers across the country to participate in it,” he said.

The Tribune

2021-11-13