India News: CHARKHI DADRI: Asserting that the agitation against the Centre's farm laws is a people's movement that will not fail, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rak.
12 days after Delhi tractor rally, farmers are still missing – and their families are in despair
At least 21 protesting farmers have been missing since the tractor rally on January 26 led to clashes with the Delhi police. Left to right: Maha Singh, Jorawar Singh, and Bajinder Singh are missing since January 26.
Paramjeet Kaur last saw her father, Sardar Jorawar Singh, on January 22 when she went to meet him at the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana. A 75-year-old farmer from Ludhiana’s Ikkolahi village, Jorawar Singh had been protesting against the new agricultural laws since November 26, camped at Singhu along with thousands of other farmers from Punjab and Haryana.
Tikait lauded the role of khap panchayats (caste councils) and their leaders in supporting the farmers stir. Addressing a Kisan Mahapanchayat near here, Tikait said the government should rollback the contentious farm laws, frame a new legislation to assure the continuation of the minimum support price (MSP) for crops and release the farmers arrested recently. There will be no ghar wapsi till farmers demands are met, he said. Yeh jan andolan hai, yeh fail nahi hoga (this is a people s movement, this will not fail), he added. Tikait claimed the campaign against the agriculture laws is going strong. With many khap leaders present at the mahapanchayat, Tikait lauded their role in strengthening the stir.
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