Farmers sit inside a makeshift tent at a protest web site the place they’re marching in the direction of New Delhi to press for the higher crop costs promised to them in 2021, at Shambhu Barrier, a border between Punjab and Haryana states, India, February 22, 2024.
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Because the stand-off between the Centre and farmers continues, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) introduced on Thursday that it will cell farmers nationwide with a slew of programmes in help of its calls for.
The SKM is the umbrella physique of farmers that spearheaded the 2020-21 farmers’ agitation.
An SKM assembly was held right here a day after 21-year-old Shubhkaran Singh was killed on the Khanauri border level of Punjab and Haryana when protesting farmers have been making an attempt to renew their march from Punjab to Delhi.
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Farmers have been tenting in Punjab after being stopped from getting into Haryana since February 13. The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) — the 2 umbrella our bodies of round 200 farmers’ and farm labourer unions — had given the decision for the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, to press for fulfilment of their calls for, together with a authorized assure for buying their crops at a Minimal Help Value (MSP) and farm mortgage waivers.
SKM leaders mentioned the Punjab authorities ought to lodge an FIR beneath Part 302 (expenses of homicide) in opposition to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and State Residence Minister Anil Vij and the police, over the loss of life of the younger farmer. Additionally they demanded a judicial probe by a Supreme Court docket decide into the firing and the harm brought on to tractors, which they alleged have been broken by the Haryana Police on the protest web site.
It was determined within the assembly {that a} six-member committee together with Hannan Mollah, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Balbeer Singh Rajewal, Yudhavir Singh, Darshan Pal and Raminder Patiala would maintain consultations with all former SKM members to chalk out an motion plan and to unite all farmer organisations that have been a part of the SKM.
The leaders mentioned that SKM would observe February 23 as a Black Day (Akrosh Diwas) by burning effigies and holding demonstrations.
Additionally, a name was made to look at February 26 as ‘Stop WTO Day’ by conducting marches and parking tractors on nationwide and State highways as a part of the protest.
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The SKM has deliberate to carry a ‘Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat’ on March 14 at Ramlila floor, New Delhi.
In the meantime, the Opposition events in Punjab have blamed the State authorities for the farmer’s loss of life. Shiromani Akali Dal chief Bikram Majithia mentioned Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s failure to register a case in opposition to the Haryana Police once they acted in opposition to farmers in Punjab on February 13 had led to the killing of Shubhkaran Singh.
Chief of the Opposition and Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned the Haryana police have been firing tear-gas shells and rubber bullets on farmers. “Nonetheless, the Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann didn’t lodge an FIR in opposition to the Haryana Police. It establishes that CM Mann has grow to be the BJP’s puppet,” he mentioned.
