Farmer leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal called on farmers nationwide to protest on March 6 in Delhi. They also announced a four-hour nationwide “rail roko” on March 10 to support their demands.
According to the two farmer leaders, the farmers will keep up their current agitation at the designated protest locations and won’t stop until their demands are fulfilled.
They were talking in Balloh village in Bathinda district, the hometown of a farmer who had recently passed away in Khanauri during fighting with Haryana security forces.
Lead by the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM), farmers are participating in the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to put pressure on the government to grant their demands, which include a legal guarantee of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops from the Center.
In support of the farmers’ demands, both forums decided that farmers from Punjab and Haryana will keep up their ongoing agitation at the border posts of Shambhu and Khanauri, while farmers and farm laborers from other states should gather in Delhi on March 6 to participate in a protest in the nation’s capital.
“Far-off states’ farmers who are unable to travel to Delhi on tractor trolleys should take trains or other forms of transportation. Addressing the assembly at Balloh, Pandher said, “It will also become evident whether the government permits those farmers who do not have tractor trolleys to enter Delhi.”
“The agitation at Shambhu and Khanauri will persist as it has and get even more intense. We won’t stop until the demands are fulfilled,” one of the leaders said.
Pandher stated that in order to put pressure on the government to heed the demands of the farmers, the two forums aimed at spreading this agitation nationwide are calling on laborers and farmers nationwide to participate in the ‘rail roko’ protest, which is scheduled to take place on March 10 from noon to 4 pm.
According to Pandher, every panchayat in Punjab should adopt a resolution endorsing the demands of the farmers, and a tractor-trolley should arrive at the protest boundary points from each village.
He said that prior to the Haryana Police’s recent use of drones in the farmers’ agitation, the Center had never used them.
