Being a purely religious body, by getting involved into the farmers agitation, which comprises farmers from all religions and castes, the SGPC is going completely against the mandate given to it under The Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 and Punjab Act 8 of 1925 .
On International Women’s Day, women from Punjab reached Tikri on Delhi-Haryana border on to join the ongoing farmers’ protest. A protestor said, “We urge the Central Government to roll back the three black laws.” Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three newly enacted farm laws - Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.International Women’s Day: Women take helm of Farmers protest at Tikri Border
It was a normal roadside wall of brick and mortar till a day ago, but now it is called the
“neki ki divar (wall of goodness)”.
From clothes to toiletries to medicines, the protesters who are continuing their sit-in at Delhi’s Ghazipur border against the Centre’s new farm laws, can get these things by writing their needs on this wall.
“We have set up a ‘
neki ki divar’ today. The idea is to ensure all our farmer brothers and sisters are well equipped to be a part of the protest and keep themselves warm in Delhi’s harsh weather,” Survinder Kisan, one of the protesters at the Ghazipur border, said.
Farmers Protest Delhi: Around 5pm today, farmers will hold a candle-light vigil in remembrance.
New Delhi:
It s been 25 days since thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and other Indian states began to gather in and around the national capital in protest against three new central agricultural laws. Today, on what is being called Shraddhanjali Diwas , they are all taking a moment to remember their comrades who fell during their collective struggle these past many days.
At Singhu, one of the border points between Delhi and Haryana where a large number of farmers have been camped in protest, prayers were read out today before posters of the 29 persons who reportedly lost their lives during the course of the agitation.
PM Modi behaving like party leader, says AIKSCC
Attacking the Agriculture Ministers’ open letter to farmers, the AIKSCC has said the letter is full of references to the Congress, AAP, Akalis and his understanding of history, but that are not the issues which farmers are protesting on. December 19, 2020 11:02:42 am
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) on Friday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he had reduced himself to a party leader undermining his role as a responsible executive head of the country who was expected to solve farmers’ problems.
“PM should know that paddy is selling at Rs 900 per quintal though the MSP is Rs 1,870 per quintal,” the AIKSCC said in a statement while adding that the Centre was trying to discredit them by saying that their movement is politically motivated.
Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: To step up pressure on the government, the unyielding farmers are planning to scale up their agitation.
The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) said all its state units were preparing with full strength for the Shraddhanjali Diwas on December 20 which will be observed in over 1 lakh villages.
A rally will be held at Ambani and Adani groups’ offices in Mumbai on December 22. Accusing PM Narendra Modi of playing ‘BJP-Opposition politics’ instead of addressing farmers problems, the AIKSCC said he had launched an open attack on the farmers by claiming that they were linked to opposition parties.