More Punjab farmers to head for Delhi
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More Punjab farmers to head for Delhi
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BKU(U) president Joginder Singh said a ‘Delhi Chalo’ campaign committee has been formed by the outfit to strengthen the Delhi morcha (rally). “This committee will organise activities to mobilise people to go to Delhi as well as to strengthen the ongoing morcha s in Punjab,” he said. Mr. Singh said the BKU(U) would stand firm for the complete repeal of the farm laws, besides government procurement of all crops in all the States at Minimum Support Price as a legal right. Sarvan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the Punjab unit of the KMSC said thousands of farmers associated with the outfit had already reached the Singhu-Kundli border in the past few days and several more will be joining the morcha in the next week. “On December 25, we are planning to send at least over a thousand tractor-trolleys from Gurdaspur district alone to Delhi,” he said. “The government has been playing dirty games to weaken our agitation but we will not let it happen. Farmers from Punjab will continue to throng until the government accedes to our demands. We will not settle on anything less than the repealing of the three farm laws,” Mr. Sarvan told The Hindu .
Publisher
The Hindu
Date
2020-12-20
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December 20 2020 00:00 IST