New Delhi: Days after the protesting farmers began constructing ‘pucca’ homes on the Singhu border, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday (March 14) requested them to not accomplish that.
The SKM, which is main the protests in opposition to the three new farm legal guidelines, requested the farmers to not build permanent structures at Delhi’s border factors the place they’ve been tenting since November final yr.
The SKM’s assertion comes within the wake of Haryana Police registering two separate circumstances in opposition to farmers for allegedly elevating concrete wall construction and digging a borewell on National Highway-44 within the state’s Sonipat district, shut to Delhi’s Singhu border protest web site.
Some permanent structures have began to come up on the Singhu border, considered one of three distinguished protest websites moreover Ghazipur and Tikri border factors, the place agitation in opposition to the Centre’s three agri legal guidelines has been occurring for over three months.
During a gathering of the Morcha, which included 32 Punjab farmer unions, a choice was taken that the protestors ought to not build any permanent structures on the protest websites, an SKM assertion stated.
The assertion additional stated that a number of SKM leaders additionally travelled to West Bengal to marketing campaign in help of their agitation and to urge voters there not to vote for “anti-farmer” BJP.
The SKM delegation addressed Mahapanchayats at Singur and Asansol within the state on Sunday, it stated.
The outfit stated after a debate within the United Kingdom’s House of Commons on the problem of peaceable protests and press freedoms in India, it might be the House of Representatives in Australia that might decide up a petition.
“The e-petition has four more days for collecting signatures before the House of Representatives could pick it up,” the assertion stated.
The ‘yatras’ taken out in help of farmers calls for in numerous states, together with Odisha, Bihar and Uttarakhand, are occurring and receiving help there, the assertion stated.
The SKM stated of the 151 farmers, arrested in reference to numerous FIRs aside from the one in regards to the Red Fort incident on Republic Day, 147 have been launched on bail to this point.
Earlier this week, the Haryana police within the Sonipat district halted development work of ‘pucca’ homes being constructed by farmers on the Singhu border. Two FIRs had been filed in opposition to the farmers on the Kundli police station on Friday.
The development work was halted after a criticism was filed by NHAI and Kundli municipality officers.
