Farmers take out bike rally to support tractor parade

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 26

Hundreds of activists belonging to different farmer organisations took out a motorcycle rally on Tuesday (January 26) to show solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi.

The rally passed through various bazaars and roads of the city before culminating at Putlighar Chowk where they raise slogans against the Central Government. They said the government had adopted an adamant attitude.

They said the farmers had been holding a dharna at Delhi borders for the past two months. They claimed that the laws would jeopardize the future of the farming community.

Rattan Singh Randhawa of the Jamhoori Kisan Sabha said the Central Government was working at the behest of corporate houses and did not have any interest in uplifting the economic status of farmers.

Randhawa said around 150 farmers had died so far since the start of the agitation. Farmer leaders Mukhtar Singh Muhawa, Balwinder Singh Dudhala, Balbir Singh, Manjit Singh Basarke, among others, were present in the rally.

Meanwhile, members of the Azad Kisan Sangharsh Committee also organised a tractor rally. The rally started from the Nizzarpura Toll plaza and passed through 25 villages before culminating at Amritsar. Over 400 hundred tractors participated in the rally.