Mohali Beopar Mandal backs call for Bharat Bandh on Sept 27

Tribune News Service

Mohali, September 24

The Mohali Beopar Mandal today announced to given unconditional support to the Bharat Bandh call given by the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha on September 27.

A decision to this effect was taken after a meeting between office-bearers of the Mohali Beopar Mandal and farm leaders of various Kisan Unions held here today.

Vineet Verma, president of the Beopar Mandal, said all shops, except medical stores, would remain closed from 6 am to 4 pm on September 27. The decision was taken after the Kisan Union leader wrote to the Beopar Mandal seeking its support to make the Bharat Bandh successful.

In the meeting, members of the Beopar Mandal urged the leaders of farmers associations not to stop people going for urgent work during the bandh, to which the farmers agreed.

Vineet said the business community was with the farmers. He said the Union Government should immediately withdraw the three farm laws so that the farmers, who had been protesting at the Delhi border for the past one year, could return to their homes.

Farm leader Nachhatar Singh Baidwan thanked Vineet Verma and other office-bearers of the Beopar Mandal for their unconditional support to make the Bharat Bandh successful.