Stating that farmers from Punjab and Haryana will proceed to put siege to the Shambhu and Khanauri borders, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) management on Sunday gave a clarion name to farmers from different elements of the nation to achieve Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on March 6 to take ahead the agitation. The farmers will even be staging a four-hour ‘rail roko’ throughout India on March 10.

Addressing farmers, who had gathered on the grain market of Balloh village in Bathinda for the bhog ceremony of the 21-year-old farm agitator Shubh Karan Singh, who was killed in police motion on February 21, KMM chief Sarwan Singh Pandher appealed to farmers from different states to achieve Jantar Mantar on March 6 utilizing public transport, personal automobiles or on foot. “Let’s see if the Centre allows protesters from the underprivileged strata to reach Delhi for a protest without riding on tractors,” mentioned Pandher, including that farmers from Punjab and Haryana wouldn’t be a part of the protest march to Delhi subsequent week.

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“We (farmers from Punjab and Haryana) will continue to lay siege of Shambhu and Khanauri borders.”

The union management, nevertheless, didn’t make clear the plan of action after the agitators assemble in Delhi.

Jagjit Singh Dallewal, president of the Sidhupur faction of the BKU, mentioned, “SKM (non-political) and KMM have the backing of nearly 200 farmer and worker unions from different parts of the state. The rail roko is to press for the demands raised by the farming community.”

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The occasion organised to pay homage to the younger farm rights activist turned out to be a present of energy by the SKM (non-political)-KMM and SKM and its constituents.

While leaders like Joginder Singh Ugrahan from BKU (Ekta Ugrahan), Manjit Singh Dhaner (BKU-Dakaunda, Dhaner faction), Balkaran Singh Brar (Kul Hind Kisan Sabha) and Gurnam Singh Charuni (BKU Charuni) have been seated on the dais, none of them have been invited to handle the gathering as solely union leaders near Dallewal and Pandher spoke on the event.

Dallewal and Pandher kept away from making any reference to unity with the SKM though the important thing leaders have been current on the stage.

Pandher additionally made no point out of the continued farmers’ dharna on the Doomwali border in Bathinda the place the Dhaner faction of BKU (Dakaunda), a constituent of SKM, is dominating. Pandher mentioned that just a few persons are attempting to create a notion as if the continued agitation is led solely by two unions of Pandher and Dallewal.

“We worked for nearly two months and interacted with about 200 unions of farmers and workers based in more than a dozen states. Certain people who are hand-in-glove with the government agencies are trying to scuttle the ongoing agitation by maliciously terming it sponsored by the Modi government or the AAP government in Punjab. The overwhelming support for the agitation has silenced such people as we are in a direct fight with the Modi government for our demands,” mentioned Pandher.

Hitting out on the saffron get together, he mentioned that the BJP gave a ticket to Ajay Mishra Teni from Lakhimpur Kheri whose son was chargeable for killing farmers, and he too is concerned within the conspiracy. “This shows the seriousness of the BJP government towards farmers,” he added.

Led by Jagjit Dallewal from (SKM Ekta Sidhupur) and KMM’s Pandher, lots of of unions had began a Delhi Chalo march on February 13 to press the Centre to simply accept their calls for. Besides making MSP (minimal assist worth) for 32 crops a authorized assure, twin fronts of the protesting unions are demanding calculation of MSP as per the Swaminathan report, debt waivers, employment for family of individuals killed through the agitation in Delhi between November 2020 and December 2021, compensation for farmers injured in Lakhimpur Kheri in October 2021, withdrawal of instances registered towards protesting farmers and pension for farmers and labourers after attaining the age of 60 among the many many calls for.

After the Haryana authorities deployed heavy safety forces and used power and block roads from Shambhu, Khanauri and Dabwali, lots of of Punjab farmers laid siege to the important thing entry factors to the neighbouring state. The union leaders held 4 rounds of talks with a panel of Union ministers however the impasse continued.

On February 21, a 21-year-old native of Balloh village in Bathinda died after being hit by a bullet after which the union leaders introduced to droop Delhi Chalo.