New Delhi:
As January 26 approaches, the Farmer Protest is going to become active once again. Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Thursday said a group of 101 farmers will resume their march to Delhi from the Shambhu Border Line on January 21 to press the government for a legal guarantee of minimum support price for crops. Pressure can be created to accept their demands.
Farmer movement will start again
Earlier, a group of 101 farmers had made three attempts to go towards Delhi on foot from Shambhu border on December 6, December 8 and December 14 last year. He was not allowed to proceed further by the security personnel in Haryana. A day before the announcement of the protesting farmers’ march to Delhi, a group of 111 farmers on Wednesday started a fast unto death from the border near Khanauri towards Haryana in solidarity with the fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal. Let us tell you that this is the 52nd day of Dallewal’s fast unto death.
Group of 101 farmers preparing to march to Delhi
Speaking to reporters on Thursday at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana, Kisan Mazdoor Morcha leader Pandher criticized the central government for not accepting the demands of the farmers camping in Shambhu and Khanauri for the last 11 months. He said, “Both the forums (SKM-non-political, KMM) decided today that a group of 101 farmers will resume their march to Delhi from Shambhu border on January 21.”
He said that we have seen and we also feel that the government is not ready for any talks. Both the forums have decided to intensify the movement. Yesterday on January 15, a group of 111 farmers started a fast unto death in solidarity with their leader Dallewal and vowed not to back down until their demands were met.
Farmers sitting on fast unto death with Dallewal
The new ‘jatha’ is sitting on a fast unto death on the border of Haryana. Dallewal has been sitting on a hunger strike since November 26 last year at the Khanauri border on the Punjab side. Haryana Police has increased security on its part of the border. It has already invoked Section 163 of the Indian Civil Defense Code, under which the gathering of five or more people is banned. The protesting farmers have expressed concern over Dallewal’s ‘deteriorating’ health. He says that due to prolonged fasting, ‘many of his organs may stop working’.
Farmers adamant on other demands including guarantee on MSP
Dallewal, convener of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), is on an indefinite hunger strike at the Khanauri border between Punjab and Haryana since November 26 last year. Farmers under the banner of SKM (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have been camping at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points between Punjab and Haryana since February 13 last year after the security forces stopped them from demanding various demands, including legal guarantee of MSP for their crops. Permission was not given to march till Delhi.
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