Farmers Protest Updates: The United Farmers’ Front (SKM) on Tuesday said 500 farmers march peacefully to Parliament every day during the winter session beginning November 29 to mark one year of the Centre’s agitation against three new agricultural laws. will participate in the march. The winter session of Parliament will run from November 29 to December 23.
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been camping at the borders of Delhi since November 26 last year, demanding the repeal of the new agricultural laws. The Supreme Court had stayed the implementation of these laws in January. SKM, an organization of 40 farmer unions, announced the tractor march after a meeting.
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The organization said in a statement that on the occasion of completion of one year of the movement, on November 26 and after that, the movement will be given wide support across the country. The statement said that the SKM has decided that from November 29 till the end of this Parliament session, 500 selected farmer volunteers as part of their right to protest in the national capital peacefully and with full discipline will go to Parliament every day in tractor trolleys.
It further said that this would be done to increase pressure on the central government and to force it to accept the demands for which farmers across the country have started a historic struggle. Earlier in March also, farmers took out a march to Parliament to protest against the controversial three agricultural laws.
The tractor rally that took place on January 26 this year turned violent, with protesters breaking barriers, attacking security personnel and setting up a religious flag in the Red Fort complex.
The SKM statement said that on November 26, huge crowds will gather along all the borders of Delhi from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan. All the farmers unions involved in the SKM will bring a large number of farmers for the occasion, the statement said. There will be huge public meetings there (on the borders) that day. Tributes will be paid to more than 650 people who have been martyred in this struggle so far.
The SKM has also called for large-scale mahapanchayats in state capitals on November 26. Farmer leader and representative of National Kisan Mazdoor Sabha Abhimanyu Kohad said that farmers will sit on dharna wherever the Delhi Police stops them on their way to Parliament. Any decision on finalizing the route and giving police permission for the tractor march would be taken later, he added. He said that the tractor march would be taken out in a peaceful and disciplined manner.
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