Rejoin protest after harvesting paddy, unions tell farmers
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Rejoin protest after harvesting paddy, unions tell farmers
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After the completion of paddy harvesting season, the farm unions have told protesting farmers to join the agitation at Singhu Border in Delhi. A large number of farmers returned to their villages for paddy harvesting last month. Observing the need of hour, farmer activist were not keen to send more groups of farmers at Delhi.Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said, “Most of the farmers have ended with the paddy harvesting. The process of sowing the wheat crop is not much time consuming. Moreover, the weather conditions are now favourable to gether in the agitation. We gave the call to farmers to join the protest at Delhi borders.”The ongoing farmer’s agitation has completed 11 months. On November 26, one year would be completed. It would be a major event. However, the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha did not make any announcement, but it is being expected that there would be a major event at Singhu Border to observe one year.“We flagged off several groups for Singhu today. More farmers will left for Delhi in coming days”, said Pandher. — TNS
Publisher
The Tribune
Date
2021-11-06
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Amritsar