Farmers Movement Archive

Don’t enter our village to seek votes, Gohalwar farmers warn politicians

Tarn Taran, November 13Farmers of Gohalwar village here have warned the politicians against entering their village to seek votes during elections. They decided to take this step at a meeting held on Friday. The farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), Punjab, led by Manjinder Singh Gohalwar, condemned the role of politicians belonging to the political parties at the time of the crisis.Manjinder Singh, president of the village unit, said as no political party had come to support the farmers’ agitation, they should not seek their votes. After the meeting, the farmers organised a rally in the village in support of their demands. They raised slogans in favour of their current demands for the withdrawal of the farm laws and the restoration of the mandi system to ensure the procurement of the farmers’ crops at the MSP. They said the laws would give right to the Union Government not to buy their crops at the minimum support price.The farmers said they would oppose the entry of politicians at the time of elections. Harpreet Singh Sidhwan, leader of the KMSC, said it was the decision of the village-level unit, not of the state leadership of the organisation.

The Tribune

2020-11-14