Punjab unions cancel mahapanchayats, urge farmers to return to Delhi
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Move comes as crowds dwindle at protest sites outside Delhi
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Crowds of farmers seen thinning out at a protest site in Delhi on February 16, 2021.
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Move comes as crowds dwindle at protest sites outside Delhi
With the crowds of Punjab farmers starting to thin out at the Singhu and Tikri protest sites on the Delhi-Haryana border, Punjab’s farmers union leaders have decided to cancel plans for large mahapanchayat gatherings in their State and mobilise people to come to Delhi instead. They hope that large mobilisation for a countrywide rail roko protest on Friday will prove a turning point in their demands for the Centre to repeal three farm reform laws and give them a legal guarantee for remunerative prices.
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Sanyukt Kisan Morcha to intensify agitation against the three farm laws
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“Our movement will continue until the government repeals the three farms laws. We are ready for talks but the government only says it is just a call away. We will now take the movement to different parts of the country,” Kirti Kisan Union vice-president Rajinder Singh told ET.
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NEW DELHI: The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha has decided to intensify the agitation against the three farm laws. Although PM Modi had requested farmers to return to the talks table during his speech in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the SKM strategy seems to be compelled by the fact that the government has not announced fresh dates for talks.
The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella body of 40 farmer unions leading the agitation, issued a statement after the PMs comments during his reply to the motion of thanks to the presidential address, questioning the governments commitment to seriously and sincerely resolving the farmers demands.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Congress MP Pratap Singh Bajwa (left) during the budget session of Parliament in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on Monday about “andolan jeevi” and “foreign destructive ideology (FDI)” came in for sharp criticism from the opposition and the farmers protesting against the three agri laws. They said these terminologies were an insult to the farmers.
Replying to the motion of thanks on the President’s address in Rajya Sabha, the prime minister hit out at those who were fuelling the protests. Terming the “new breed of agitators andolan jeevi , he said it cannot survive without an agitation and the nation should guard against them.