At the same time as protesting farmers continued their demonstrations on two key Punjab-Haryana borders, together with Shambhu and Khanauri, the Haryana administration on Monday eliminated barricades put up between Ambala and Chandigarh Nationwide Freeway.
The farmers have introduced they’ll march in the direction of Delhi on March 6 and farmers’ unions have referred to as to dam railway tracks on March 10 between 12 pm to 4 pm.
It has been 21 days since farmers started their ‘Dilli Chalo’ march and were stopped on the borders and their entry to the nationwide capital was resisted by the authorities. Since February 13, they’ve been camping at points on Punjab’s border with Haryana to press the Centre for several demands, together with a flooring worth i.e. MSP, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electrical energy tariffs, 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.
The protesting farmers and the Centre have so far held at least four rounds of talks over the previous’s calls for but to no avail.
Farmer chief Sarban Singh Pandher has mentioned that the protesters sitting on the Haryana border will proceed their protest on the web site solely. They won’t transfer their tractors and shall be supplied with a further tarpaulin, he mentioned.
“Now we have not withdrawn the Delhi Chalo march. We are going to wait until the barricading is faraway from the highways. Farmers of different states won’t convey tractor trolleys as they’re poor. They could use rail, buses, and even arrive on foot. We are going to proceed our protest on the borders,” Pandher mentioned.
Farmer union leaders have additionally introduced that they’ll strengthen their presence on the Punjab-Haryana border.
Whereas the variety of protesters on each borders has been diminished significantly, lots of of tractor-trolleys can nonetheless be seen parked on the roads. Some protesters return to their properties and are changed by their neighbours.
The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has introduced that it’s going to maintain a ‘Kisan Mahabhanchayat’ at Ram Leela Maidan or Jantar Mantar on March 14. In the meantime, the farmers have additionally determined to strengthen their numbers on the Dabwali-Bathinda border.
Ramandeep Singh Maan of Kisan Mazdoor Morcha has introduced that they’ll protest at extra areas past Punjab and Haryana border factors.