Chandigarh, The Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha on Monday introduced that farmers will march in direction of Delhi on December 6 to press the Centre to simply accept their numerous calls for, together with a authorized assure of MSP for crops.
The choice was taken at a gathering of farmer leaders right here.
The protesting farmers have been tenting at Shambhu and Khanauri border factors between Punjab and Haryana since February 13, when their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, spearheaded by the SKM and the KMM, was stopped by safety forces.
Addressing the media right here, KMM chief Sarwan Singh Pandher mentioned after an extended wait, they’ve determined to move in direction of Delhi.
“We are going to transfer in direction of Delhi on December 6,” he mentioned.
Pandher slammed the Centre for not holding any talks with the farmers to debate their calls for.
“We’ve got been left with no choice. We waited peacefully for the federal government for 9 months. However now we’ll head in direction of Delhi,” he added.
The farmers will transfer in direction of the nationwide capital in batches from the Shambhu border.
Tejveer Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union mentioned they’ve been tenting on the two border factors for 280 days and the Centre has not held any talks with them since February 18.
Final week, the farmers introduced that they’d intensify their agitation and begin a quick unto demise from November 26. Farmer chief Jagjit Singh Dallewal will observe the quick.
Apart from a authorized assure of minimal assist worth for crops, the farmers are demanding a farm debt waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police instances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.
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