Farmers Movement Archive

Massive BKU(U) contingent starts march from Punjab

Scores of farmers under the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) banner on Saturday started their march from parts of Punjab to participate in the ongoing agitation in Delhi against the Centre’s farm laws. The BKU(U) is one of the largest farm outfits in Punjab and its members have been protesting at Tikri (Delhi-Bahadurgarh border). BKU general secretary Sukhdev Singh said over 16,000 people including women farmers and labourers on several tractor-trolleys, buses, trucks and other vehicles left from Punjab’s Khanauri border for Delhi. “We have printed pamphlets, which we will distribute to people during our march to expose the government’s false propaganda and defend the rights of the farmers. We want to make people aware and expose the government,” Mr. Singh said. Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly and Aam Aadmi Party MLA Harpal Cheema said the farm laws were not only anti-farmer but also against the poor, middle class and small traders of the country. “While the new agricultural laws would grab the land of farmers by giving them to the capitalists, depriving them of their assets, the law related to the stocking of essential commodities would eliminate the poor and traders of the country,” he alleged in a statement.

The Hindu

2020-12-27

CHANDIGARH