Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers welcome Punjab assembly’s counter laws

With the state assembly unanimously passing three laws to counter the controversial farm Acts introduced by the Union Government, the farmer bodies are considering it as an achievement of the ongoing protest.While hailing the move, the farmer organisations seem to lift ‘rail roko’ in view of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s appeal in this regard.Though a decision in this regard is expected to be taken at a meeting of the farmer organisations on Wednesday, the farmer leaders confided that the course of the protest could be changed with a special focus on boycott and gherao of BJP leaders with a view to pressurising them.With the protest at the Buttari railway station entering the 20th day on Tuesday, the leaders said the farmers’ movement was an achievement with the state assembly unanimously standing in support of the farming community.“Even if there are some political compulsions or calculations, it is no mean achievement that an elected assembly has endorsed the demands and apprehensions of peasants,” said a farmer leader. Rattan Singh Randhawa said, “Apart from the harmful effects on farming, the laws were a direct attack on the federal structure of the country.” — TNS

The Tribune

2020-10-21

Amritsar