BKU gears up for ‘rasta-roko’ agitation on September 30

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 23

The Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) is mobilising its cadres and farmers for its proposed “rasta-roko” agitation on September 30, when four major highways leading to Delhi would be blocked from 11 am to 3 pm to highlight the plight of crisis-ridden farmers.

The BKU general secretary, Harinder Singh Lakhowal, said the functionaries of the union were holding meetings in each and every village in the state to mobilise maximum number of farmers for the agitation and the BKU chief, Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, was coordinating with the office-bearers.

He said the objective of the agitation was to wake up the Modi-led NDA government from out of its deep slumber so that it could initiate action for fixing minimum support price of basmati rice, implement recommendations of Dr Swaminathan Committee on prices of farm produce and effectively check suicide by crisis-ridden farmers.

Lakhowal made an appeal to the members of public to support the agitation by farmers in the larger interests of the farming community and the state by not venturing out on the national highways during the period of “rasta-roko”.