Farmers Movement Archive

Fateh March: After 'happy ending', it's pack-up time for farmers

Tribune News ServiceJalandhar, December 10“Sade ghar hi bane si ji, ajj dhaa ho gaye. Thora tan dil nu asar hunda hi hai. Par Khushi vi hai Morcha Fateh ho gaya” (We had our homes built there. Today they were taken down. It does touch our hearts a little. But we are also happy that morcha has been won.).After spending nearly a year on Delhi borders, the jubilant farmers from the area, said, they now hold the protest site so close to their heart that they would feel nostalgic while heading back to their hometowns, this being their final journey back to Punjab. With all their demands having been agreed to by the government, jathas of various organisations will return via huge caravans which are expected to reach back to the state from tomorrow onwards.While the BKU (Rajewal) jatha will start return from Delhi borders at 9 am on December 11, ‘Fateh March’ of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee will arrive on December 13.It is with mixed feelings that farmers took down their temporary abodes in the middle of a highway. However, final goodbyes are being said and farewells are being bid as farmer brothers convey each other their final goodbyes. Many hearts got heavy as they took down the tents which served as homes for the past one year.Amarjot Singh Jandiala, Youth leader, BKU Rajewal said, “We had made arrangements for blankets, coolers and ACs and also had little shelves in our tents and sheds. Men have been on the job of removing the tents since yesterday. They will be taken down now. These were our homes for a year. We sat and ate together. There is relief and happiness but also a sense of melancholy for having to take down our ‘homes’. Jathas will start tomorrow at 9 am and return in cavalcades tomorrow or day after.” State treasurer of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee Gurlal Singh Pandori said the Fateh March would pay obeisance at the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar following which tributes will be paid to Jallianwala Bagh martyrs in Amritsar. The state treasurer said the rail dharna to be held on December 13 has been postponed to December 20.

The Tribune

2021-12-11