Chandigarh: Punjab farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher stated on Saturday that they haven’t obtained any message from the Centre for talks to handle their points and stated a bunch of 101 farmers will once more start their march to Delhi on December 8.
On Friday, protesting farmers suspended their foot march to the nationwide capital for the day after a few of them suffered accidents because of tear gasoline shells fired by safety personnel, who stopped them on the Punjab-Haryana border. The farmers have been urgent for varied calls for, together with a authorized assure for Minimal Help Worth (MSP).
Addressing the media at Shambhu on the Punjab-Haryana border on Saturday, Pandher stated 16 farmers suffered accidents and one in all them misplaced listening to capacity due to the teargas shelling by Haryana safety personnel.
Besides 4 injured farmers, the remainder of them have been discharged from hospital, he stated, including, “We’ve got not obtained any message from the Centre for holding talks. The (Narendra) Modi authorities is in no temper to carry talks.” He additional stated the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have already determined {that a} ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers will once more march in direction of the nationwide capital on Sunday midday in a peaceable method.
As a part of a name given by the farmer unions SKM (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, a ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers started its march to Delhi on Friday from their protest web site on the Shambhu border to press for his or her calls for.
The ‘jatha’ was stopped by multilayered barricading erected by Haryana safety personnel. Undeterred by prohibitory orders, the farmers tried to drive their method via the barricades however have been stopped by safety personnel who lobbed a number of tear gasoline shells to drive them to return to their protest web site at Shambhu, which falls in Punjab.
On the motion by safety personnel in opposition to protesting farmers, Pandher stated the BJP authorities on the Centre has been “uncovered”.
“What did they do yesterday? Individuals are offended with this motion. Individuals are asking the BJP because the farmers weren’t taking tractor-trolleys together with them then why they weren’t allowed to maneuver forward,” Pandher posed.
One other farmer chief Jagjit Singh Dallewal continued along with his quick unto dying on the Khanauri border. Farmers claimed that Dallewal has misplaced eight-kilogram weight.
Pandher on Friday stated they appealed to the federal government to both maintain a dialogue with the protesting farmers or “enable us to maneuver to Delhi”. Nevertheless, the Haryana Police had stated the protesting farmers created a ruckus and in addition made their greatest efforts to demolish police barricades arrange on the Haryana aspect of the border.
Shortly earlier than the farmers’ march, the Haryana authorities on Friday suspended cell web and bulk SMS service in 11 villages of the Ambala district until December 9.
The protesting farmers had earlier tried to march in direction of Delhi on February 13 and February 21 however have been stopped by safety forces deployed on the border factors.
Moreover MSP, the farmers are additionally demanding a farm debt waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police instances (in opposition to farmers), and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
Reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation to the households of farmers who died through the earlier agitation in 2020-21 are additionally a part of their calls for.
