Farmers Movement Archive

Another batch of Punjab farmers sets off for Delhi

As the stand-off over the new farm laws continues, another batch of farmers and farm labourers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee (KMSC) from Punjab started its tractor-trolley ‘march’ for Delhi on Friday. “A fresh batch of thousands of farmers and farm labourers left today for Delhi from Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts. Two similar batches have already reached Singhu-Kundli in the past few days. The farmers who started on Friday are moving on tractor-trolleys, two-wheelers, cars and vans,” Sarvan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the Punjab unit of the KMSC, told The Hindu . “According to our estimate, 600-700 tractor-trolleys have started their journey. Thousands of farmers associated with us are coming and will reach the Delhi border by December 27,” he said. The KMSC is the one outfit that is still continuing with the ‘rail roko’ agitation it started on September 24. Most other unions lifted the blockade on November 24. Farmers associated with Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan), one of the largest farm outfits in Punjab, are slated to start marching for Delhi on December 26. “We are mobilising people from nearly 1,100 villages from the Malwa, Doaba and Majha regions of the State. At least one batch of at least 15,000 protesters will march from the Khanauri border on December 26, and another 15,000 farmers will start their march from Dabwali on December 27,” said Sukhdev Singh, general secretary of the BKU(U).

The Hindu

2020-12-26

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