Farmers had given a call for a tractor march outside Punjab on Monday and would hold a rail-roko protest across Punjab on December 18. |
Chandigarh: A score of farmers on Monday took out “tractor marches’’ in several towns of neighbouring Haryana to express their solidarity with the Punjab farmers who have been protesting at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders of Punjab and Haryana to press for their demands since February this year.
Besides Ambala, a large number of farmers took out the tractor marches in Hisar, Jind, Hansi, Bhiwani and Sirsa and also burnt the effigies of several leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Haryana chief minister Nayab Saini and BJP MP Ram Chandra Jangra.
The tractor marches were held from 12 noon till 2 pm so that there was no disruption in the movement of children at the time of opening and closing of the school timings.
Terming the remarks of Jangra divisive and baseless, farmer leader Tejveer Singh said that farmers were angered over his remarks in which he had said that over 700 girls of Haryana had gone missing during the farmers agitation in 2020-2021.
He also held that if there was even a grain of truth in Jangra’s remarks, what were the national women commission and Haryana women commission doing to this day.
It may be recalled that the farmers who have been protesting at the borders named above under the aegis of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha had repeatedly attempted to take out their “Delhi chalo’’ foot-march towards Delhi from the borders named above during the past few days, but were stopped by the Haryana police by lobbing teargas shells and using water cannons which left several farmers injured.
It was in this wake that the farmers had given a call for a tractor march outside Punjab on Monday and would hold a rail-roko protest across Punjab on December 18.
`RAIL ROKO’ ON DEC 18
Meanwhile, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher, who reached a village in Amritsar to lead Wednesday’s “rail-roko” stir, appealed to farmers of Punjab to join the “rail-roko’’ protest on December 18.
Urging the people of Punjab to participate in the said agitation to support the farmers’ demands, he asked people of all the 13,000 villages of Punjab to stage the protest at their nearby railway stations or railway crossings from 12 noon to 3 pm. He held that this stir would shake the foundations of the Central regime.
DALLEWAL’S CONDITION CRITICAL
Meanwhile, according to reports, the doctors attending on farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, whose fast-unto-death entered its 21st day on Monday, recommended his immediate hospitalisation because of his worsening health.
According to media reports, Dallewal has refused to receive any medical treatment. Dallewal, 70, a cancer patient, has been on hunger strike at Khanauri border to press for various farmers’ demands including MSP for crops and debt waiver.
