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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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Reacting to the
Supreme Court’s suggestion to the Centre to put implementation of the farm laws on hold, all three platforms of farmer unions in Punjab have said that they will react to it only after consulting their legal team as well as the unions of other states.
Buta Singh Burjgill, President of BKU (Dakaunda), said, “Many lawyers are providing us services free of cost and they have supported our struggle since long. Hence they will study the document of the Supreme Court and accordingly we will be able to comment.” Burjgill is part of the 32 farmer organisations of Punjab who are protesting at a common fro
Joginder Singh Ugrahan at Tikri Border.
This prompted several Union ministers including Piyush Goyal, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Narendra Singh Tomar over the last two days to state that “Leftist and Maoist elements” have infiltrated the protests seeking to derail the government’s “reformist farm laws.”
Buta Singh Burjgill, President, BKU (Dakaunda), who presided over the meeting of the 32 farmer organisations on December 11, said, “Human rights is a big issue for us as well but here this joint struggle is only against the laws formed by the Central government i..e the three farm laws, the Ordinance related to environment and the proposed Electricity Bill, 2020.”