Farmers protest: SKM to hold ‘Black Day’ agitation tomorrow, ‘mahapanchayat’ in Delhi on March 14
The SKM will also organise an all-India tractor rally on February 26.
The SKM will also organise an all-India tractor rally on February 26.
According to an SKM statement on Saturday, on May 7, several leaders of the organisation from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh will visit the protest site at Jantar Mantar and extend support to the protesting wrestlers.
Ahead of the farmers' call to protest at the Jantar Mantar in the national capital on August 22, the Delhi Police has tightened security at Delhi-Tikri border and has put up cemented barricades. Farmers have now started arriving in the city.
They claimed that the Centre had offered to form a committee to decide on the MSP issue and the committee would consist of government officials, agriculture experts and representatives of the SKM.
The umbrella body of several farmer unions also urged the President to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the supervision of the Supreme Court in the brutal killing of farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri.
The Bandh once again brought to fore the fissures among the political parties over the issue.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a consortium of 100-odd farmers' unions from across India, 15 trade unions and several political parties have jointly called a Bharat Bandh from 6 a.m. till 4 p.m. on Monday to mark the first anniversary of what they termed as a 'Black Day' when the President of India had given his assent to the three farm laws last year.
Commuters were left stranded at railway stations and bus stands in various towns and cities of both the states as public transport was stranded. People were forced to trudge with heavy luggage and office-goers too were hit hard.
In a joint statement, AAP Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha and AAP Punjab's farmer wing chief Kultar Singh Sandhwan said the AAP leaders and volunteers would take to the streets with the farmers without the party's flag and symbol.
The call for a campaign has now unleashed a new challenge for the ruling BJP government in the state, which is staring at the by-polls for Mandi Lok Sabha and three Assembly constituencies, Fatherpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai.
