Tribune News Service
Bathinda/Patiala, January 30
In a bid to revive the protest against the central farm laws, many village panchayats in Bathinda, Mansa and Patiala districts held meetings to mobilise support and send villagers to join Delhi protesters.
Exhorting the youth to remain peaceful, the panchayats asked everyone to strengthen the protest and go to Delhi as it was about saving their land. A panchayat at Kotbhaktu village in Bathinda has taken a decision that any family that doesn’t send a member to the protest site would face social boycott.
Around a dozen villages in Bathinda and Mansa today passed a unanimous resolution that one member per family will go to the protest on rotation, else it will have to pay a fine. Panchayats in Phul, Phooli, Kotbhaktu, Kararwala, Ghuman Kalan, Jattana Khurd, Khiala and others also passed a resolution in support of the agitation.