Published By: Pragati Pal
Last Updated: February 18, 2024, 23:14 IST
Protesting farmers have stayed put at Shambhu and Khanauri for the sixth day after their march to the nationwide capital was halted. (File picture: PTI)
Several farmer outfits, that are half of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), have prolonged their help to the “Delhi Chalo” name given by SKM (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM0 will gherao the residences of BJP leaders in Punjab for 3 days from Tuesday to press the Centre into accepting the farmers’ calls for together with a authorized assure to minimal help worth on crops, a pacesetter of the outfit has mentioned.
Several farmer outfits, that are half of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), have prolonged their help to the “Delhi Chalo” name given by SKM (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha. The march was stopped by safety forces at Shambhu and Khanauri factors on Punjab’s border with Haryana which led to clashes.
Protesting farmers have stayed put at Shambhu and Khanauri for the sixth day after their march to the nationwide capital was halted. A gaggle of Union ministers and farmer leaders will maintain a recent spherical of talks with farm leaders on Sunday night in Chandigarh. The two sides met on February 8, 12 and 15 as effectively however these talks remained inconclusive.
Balbir Singh Rajewal, a pacesetter of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella physique of varied farmer unions, mentioned they may stage protests in entrance of the residences of Punjab BJP leaders, together with MPs, MLAs and district presidents, from Tuesday to Thursday.
Interacting with reporters after a gathering of SKM leaders right here, Rajewal mentioned it has additionally been determined that they’d protest in any respect toll limitations within the state and make them free for all commuters from February 20 to 22. The SKM is not going to settle for something lower than the C-2 plus 50 per cent method for MSP as advisable within the Swaminathan Commission report, he mentioned after the assembly which was additionally attended by farmer leaders Balkaran Singh Brar and Boota Singh, amongst others.
The long-pending calls for of farmers, the continuing agitation by SKM (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha) and their a number of rounds of talks with Central ministers have been additionally mentioned within the assembly, Rajewal mentioned.
He additionally mentioned the SKM will maintain a high-level assembly on February 22 in Delhi to chalk out future technique on the calls for put up earlier earlier than the Centre throughout their agitation in 2021 towards the now-repealed farm legal guidelines. “Our struggle will continue even if the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections comes into force,” he mentioned in reply to a query by reporters.
Besides a authorized assure of MSP, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police instances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.
