Chandigarh: Farm leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Sunday said that the first group of the protesting farmers would start its foot-march from their protest site at Shambhu barrier on December 6.
Shambhu barrier is the border of Patiala (Punjab) and Ambala (Haryana) on Delhi-Amritsar national highway – besides the Khanauri Border on Sangrur-Jind districts of the two states – where a score of farmers have been camping since February 13 last protesting for their demands including legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for their crops. It was on these two points that their Delhi-Chalo tractor-march was stopped by security forces on February 12 amid violent conflict.
Briefing newspersons about the next course of the farmers’ protest, Pandher, rued that the Centre had not taken any initiative Since February 18 to hold talks with the farmers. It may be recalled that the farm leaders had also held a series of meetings with Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Nityanand Rai and Arjun Munda in Chandigarh but these had failed to make a headway.
Stating that the protesting farmers’ foot-march would be led by senior leaders, Pandher, who said that the number of farmers in these groups would be shared later, said that the farmers would carry only the essential items while marching towards Delhi peacefully between 9 am and 5 pm on the national highway and would spend the night on the road only.
