Farmers’ protest: 51 offer to be jailed on Day 2
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Farmers’ protest: 51 offer to be jailed on Day 2
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On the second day of the Jail Bharo Andolan, the district leadership of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), Punjab, presented its 51-member jatha to be court arrested here on Tuesday. The district administration did not arrest the members of the committee.The KMSC on Monday launched its agitation against the Union Government for promulgating three ordinances depriving farmers of the facilities being given for decades in the name of subsidies, minimum support price on the farmer’s products, etc.Meanwhile, the KMSC organised a rally near the site of the ‘Pakka Morcha’ held at the main gate of the local District Administrative Complex (DAC). Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra, district president of the committee, was among others who addressed on the occasion. The leaders said the Union Government had opened the doors of the country’s market for the corporate sector to exploit the common man of the country. They also flayed the Union Government for its privatisation policy. — OC
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The Tribune
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2020-09-09