Delhi: Widows, mothers of farmers who died by suicide join stir at Tikri hindustantimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hindustantimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Joining protest at Tikri: 2,000 women who lost family members to suicide
The women who joined the protest are mostly part of families of small farmers with limited landholdings, including four relatives of deceased farmers from Sangrur district s Jakhpal village. Updated: December 17, 2020 10:21:38 am
The group arrived in Tikri Wednesday. Prem Nath Pandey
Family members of farmers who committed suicide in Punjab over the years joined the ongoing protest at Delhi’s Tikri border Wednesday, with a few widows and mothers of the deceased farmers saying that they intend to remain at the site for the duration of the protest.
Around 2,000 women related to farmers who had committed suicide from various districts had left for the border from Punjab’s Malwa region on Tuesday in 17 buses and 10 tractor-trolleys arranged by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan). They reached the Ugrahan group’s transit camp, around 7 km from Tikri border, where they c
BKU (Ugrahan) â the outlier kisan union that the farmersâ protest cannot do without
BKU (Ugrahan) stirred up a row after demanding release of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam & others, but its leadership remains defiant about it, says what they did was integral to the protests.
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Chandigarh: If there is one thing that can be said with utmost certainty about 75-year-old Joginder Singh Ugrahan, the former soldier who heads the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), it is that he has never followed the herd.Â
That was on display again last week.Â
Ugrahanâs BKU (Ugrahan), one of the most prominent farmer unions protesting in Delhi, sparked controversy by commemorating the International Human Rights Day on 10 December by holding up posters of detained activists such as Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Sudha Bhardwaj and Gautam Navlakha, among others.Â
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As farmer leaders start hunger strike, one of Punjab’s largest outfit says it won’t participate
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The members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), however, are participating in a sit-in outside District Collectorates in several parts of Punjab.
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The members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), however, are participating in a sit-in outside District Collectorates in several parts of Punjab. As farmer leaders started their one-day hunger strike as part of the ongoing agitation against the Centre’s farm laws on Monday, leaders of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), one of the largest outfit in Punjab, decided not to participate in the protest.