Farmer organisations gearing up for Nov 26 call
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Farmer organisations gearing up for Nov 26 call
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Amritsar, November 17Farmer organisations have started preparations to mobilise support for the November 26 call given by the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha leaders to mark one year anniversary of the ongoing agitation at the Delhi borders.A meeting of the Vegetable Growers’ Organisation was held on Wednesday stewarding the anniversary of the agitation and the subsequent march towards the parliament as announced by the SKM.Farmer leader Bhupinder Singh Tirathpura said: “Farmers have almost completed sowing of wheat crop and are comparatively free. The participation in the agitation will increase in the next few days.”Farmer leader Lakhbir Singh Nizampura said: “A group of 500 farmers will march towards the parliament daily starting November 29.” Nizampura, who is leaving for Singhu border on November 25, when asked about when he would be returning back, said: “I have sown my wheat and there are no pressing appointments. If nothing untoward happens, I will stay there till April 2022 when I will come back to harvest wheat.”Participation in the ongoing agitation is expected to increase in the coming days. Tirathpura said: “Only a war or a celebration could hold Punjabis during winter months. This time it is no celebration but a war with our own elected government and we are fighting to make this government realise what wrong they have done.”
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The Tribune
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2021-11-18