As farmers from Punjab announced to lay siege to Delhi on February 13, pushing for several demands including a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP), 18 farmer and farm labour unions in the State are making efforts to mobilise farmers from other States for the proposed protest.
Members associated with 18 farmer and farm labour organisation have so far joined hands to ‘march’ to Delhi on tractor-trolleys from different parts of Punjab. Farmer bodies rued that the Union government has not been paying any heed to their long-pending demands. Hence, they are forced to resort to the protest.
“On February 13, thousands of tractor-trolleys and other vehicles will start their march from different parts of Punjab to Delhi on the line of our previous protest in 2020 against the now repealed farm laws. The purpose is to wake the BJP-led Union government, which is in deep slumber and has adopted an anti-farmer stance. We will continue our battle until our demands are met. Farmers from Punjab will throng Delhi unless the government fulfills our demands,” said Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the Punjab unit of Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee, one of the participants’ unions, and coordinator of the joint front for the proposed march and protest.
