Last Updated: March 09, 2024, 00:09 IST
Women farmers throughout their ongoing protest at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border in Patiala district, on 8 March 2024. (PTI photograph)
The ladies farmers stated the continuing stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers
On the event of International Women’s Day on Friday, ladies farmers took centrestage at the farmers’ ongoing protest websites at Shambhu and Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border. The ladies farmers stated the continuing stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers.
As the stir at Shambhu and Khanauri protest websites entered its twenty fifth day, many ladies farmers reached there. A mahila panchayat was additionally organised by which a variety of ladies participated. Senior farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher, who’s amongst these spearheading the continuing stir, had earlier stated ladies farmers will take centrestage on worldwide ladies’s day.
”Our theme will likely be what ought to be the function of rural ladies in profitable this morcha,” he stated. Women farmer leaders Sukhwinder Kaur, Samita Kaur Mangat and Gurpreet Kaur stated on the event that hundreds of girls farmers from Punjab and Haryana participated at the protest websites. They thanked the ladies for coming to the protest websites and lengthening help to the continuing protest in help of varied calls for of farmers.
Many ladies farmers stated the stir will proceed until the Centre provides a authorized assure of minimal help value (MSP) for crops. Some additionally raised slogans in help of the farmers’ calls for. They stated ladies farmers have made a particular contribution within the growth of the nation, be it inexperienced revolution or white revolution.
Women farmer leaders stated they may even take part within the ’Rail Roko’ protest on March 10. History is witness that the ladies of the nation have all the time contributed shoulder-to-shoulder with the lads within the growth and welfare of the nation, they stated.
Farmer leaders additionally stated ladies have performed a serious function in a number of actions previously. Farmer leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal had on Sunday given a name to the farmers throughout the nation to achieve Delhi on March 6 for a protest whereas they’d additionally given a four-hour ’Rail Roko’ countrywide name for March 10 in help of their varied calls for.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) are spearheading the ’Delhi Chalo’ march by farmers to press the federal government to simply accept their calls for which incorporates that the Centre ought to give a authorized assure of MSP for crops. The protesting farmers have been staying put at the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors between Punjab and Haryana after their ’Delhi Chalo’ march was stopped by the safety forces.
They started their march on February 13 however have been stopped by the safety forces, which led to clashes at the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors on Haryana-Punjab border.
