In Barnala, Surveer Kaur, a PhD student who got married on November 7, wrote slogans for women as they marched in protest towards the DC’s office on Monday.
“Surveer was not part of Monday’s dharna outside DC office. However, she had gone to Delhi morcha days after she got married in November. She writes slogans ‘boliyan ‘ for women,” said her mother-in-law, Karmaljeet Kaur, who was leading the dharna in Barnala. Surveer, a member of BKU (Ugrahan) had gone to the Delhi Morcha soon after her wedding and returned on November 25, pointed out Kamaljeet as she addressed protesters at grain market Barnala.
Farmer protests enter 19th day, farm leaders on 1-day hunger strike
Mon, Dec 14 2020 02:52:44 PM
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS): The farmers protest continued on the 19th day on Monday against the three new agricultural laws even as leaders from various farmer unions have decided to sit on a hunger strike for one day.
Darshan Pal Singh, state President of the Krantikari Kisan Union in Punjab, told IANS that the leaders of all farmer organisations involved in the Samyukta Kisan Morcha would sit on a single-day hunger strike from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday. Apart from this, he said a protest would be organised at the district headquarters.
Haryana seals borders with boulders yet again, farmers push them aside
While the blockade at Bathinda-Dabwali road was partial and allowed vehicles other than combines to enter from Punjab, the Khanauri-Jind highway and the Fatehabad-Sardulgarh highway were completely blocked. However, farmers removed obstacles placed in their way in the next 3 hours. Updated: December 13, 2020 1:35:54 pm
Boulder being removed at Khanauri -Jind Highway.
Haryana yet again sealed its borders with Punjab at Dabwali, Jind and Fatehabad on Saturday morning. Farmers once again used their tractors to move boulders placed on the roads.
Haryana’s decision to seal the borders again came on a day when Punjab farmers had to join farmers from Haryana in staging dharnas at toll plazas. Apart from this, over 300 combine harvesters had also to start from Punjab, but their movement was postponed. Also, a convoy of Kisan Mazdoor Sangrash Committee (KMSC) which started with 1,500 vehic
Joginder Singh Ugrahan at Tikri Border.
This prompted several Union ministers including Piyush Goyal, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Narendra Singh Tomar over the last two days to state that “Leftist and Maoist elements” have infiltrated the protests seeking to derail the government’s “reformist farm laws.”
Buta Singh Burjgill, President, BKU (Dakaunda), who presided over the meeting of the 32 farmer organisations on December 11, said, “Human rights is a big issue for us as well but here this joint struggle is only against the laws formed by the Central government i..e the three farm laws, the Ordinance related to environment and the proposed Electricity Bill, 2020.”
NEW DELHI: Singhu border, the first key farmers agitation site, on Delhi-Chandigarh route has turned into a commanding centre of farmers demonstration in the national capital during the last 17 days with making future strategy for the sit-in and selecting representatives to hold discussion with government in resolving their issues that erupted after three farm laws were enacted three months ago by the Parliament.
The peaceful protest that involves thousands of farmers mainly from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh is being centrally monitored by a group of farmers representatives belonging to over 40 farmer unions of different states and towns who have been camping at Singhu since November 26.