New Delhi: To mark the completion of one year of their agitation, 500 farmers will march towards Parliament every day starting November 29, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha(SKM) has announced. The procession will coincide with the Winter Session which starts on the same day. November 26 marks the first anniversary of the farmers’ protest at Delhi Borders against the Centre’s new farm laws.
The SKM has also urged farmers in different states to organise mahapanchayats in their capital cities. Meanwhile, farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh will gather at various borders of Delhi to hold mahapanchayats. The decisions were taken by the SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions leading the stir, during a meeting held at Singhu border protest site. These are part of its programmes to observe one year of the movement in a “massive way” all over India. “From November 29 until the end of the winter session, 500 selected farmer volunteers will move every day to Parliament in tractor trollies peacefully and with full discipline, to assert their rights to protest in the national capital,” the farm body said in a statement.
This will be done to “‘increase the pressure” on “this obstinate, insensitive, anti-people and pro-corporate BJP led central government, to force it to concede the demands for which farmers across the country have launched a historic struggle for the past one year,” it added,
The winter session of Parliament will begin on November 29 and go on till December 23.
The SKM will also mobilise “large number of farmers” from Punjab, Haryana , Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan at all the Delhi borders “All farm unions in the SKM will mobilise farmers in strength for this occasion. Huge public meetings will be held there (at borders) that day. Homage will be paid to more than 650 martyrs in this struggle so far,” it said.
