Farm Bills: Farmers To Intensify Protest From 4 January

Mrunal Jadhav

New Delhi, January 2, 2021: Demonstration of farmers sitting on the Singhu border demanding the repeal of the three central agricultural laws entered the 38th day on Saturday. Along with Singhu, an increasing number of farmers are also opposing the three Central Agricultural Laws along the Tikri and Delhi-Ghazipur border.

During a press conference in Delhi’s Press Club on Saturday afternoon, the farmers’ organizations announced that on January 6 Tractor march will be taken out, with this BJP leaders will be gheraoed by 15 January. Then on March 23, a march will be taken to the Raj Bhavan till the birthday of Subhash Chandra Bose. Finally, on 26 January, there will be a tractor farmers parade march in Delhi.

BS Rajewal, Darshan Pal, Gurnam Singh, Jagjit Singh, Shiv Kumar Sharma Kakka and Yogendra Yadav participated in this press conference of United Kisan Morcha. They have said that if their demands are not agreed then on January 4, the movement will be intensified.

At the same time, Kashmir Singh, a resident of Bilaspur in Rampur district of the state, committed suicide in the ongoing farmers’ agitation at the UP gate regarding agricultural laws. A suicide note has also been found from him. According to the information, in this, he has blamed himself for ending his life. Police also reached the spot. The farmer organizations paid tributes to the deceased farmer from the stage of the agitation site.

The strike of the farmers protesting at the Singhu border adamant on the insistence of withdrawing the three agricultural laws continued on Friday. However, the arrival of New Year did not show any enthusiasm among the farmers. The farmer’s leaders had called upon the people of Punjab and Haryana to come and support the movement in the new year at the Singhu border. In such a situation, it was expected that a large number of people would arrive here on January 1. But, contrary to expectation, a very small number of people arrived on Friday. The farmer’s organization has been standing on the Singhu border for more than a month. It is being said that the number of farmers protesters may increase on Sunday.

Farmer leaders have held several rounds of talks with the central government. However, no concrete solution has been found for those negotiations so far. The latest talks took place on 30 December, in which some consensus has been reached between the farmer leaders and the central government. Now the next dialogue will be on January 4.

At the same time, the farmers’ movement sitting on the Singhu border will decide the talks on 4 January. Meanwhile, the farmers have also prepared the roadmap to take forward the movement.