PUAD Kisan Union to continue stir at Gurdwara Singh Shaheedan, Mohali

Mohali, November 19

The PUAD Kisan Union, which has been on chain hunger strike for the past 168 days at Gurdwara Singh Shaheedan here, expressed happiness over the Central Government decision to take back the three farm laws. The union stated that they would continue the chain hunger strike till the Parliament passed an ordinance in this regard.

Farmer leaders said they were not sure about the Modi government as it had made several promises to the people, but not a single promise was fulfilled during the past seven years. “Farmers are happy over winning the war, but many such wars have to be fought,” they added.

Several members of the Taraksheel Society Punjab (Chandigarh), including Joga Singh, Prem Singh, Satnam Singh Dau and Bhag Singh, participated in the chain hunger strike today, they added.

Meanwhile, the national delegate and the state president, All India Jatt Maha Sabha, Chandigarh, Rajinder Singh Badheri, has termed the repealing of the three agriculture laws as a “victory of the farmers”.

“Due to immense sacrifices of farmers, today they have become free from pro-capitalist laws. The Central Government should compensate farmers for whatever loss of life and property they suffered during the peasant agitation,” Badheri added.

Azad Group led by former Mayor Kulwant Singh while offering sweets to farmers said though announcement made by PM Modi on the three black farm laws was late, it was a right decision. He said the union government should initiate steps to fulfil other demands of farmers.

BJP workers celebrate with Kisan Morcha

The BJP state executive member, Sanjeev Vashisht, congratulated protesting farmer supporters at the Phase III and V Mohali traffic light point and distributed ladoos among them on Friday. “Now, there is an atmosphere of happiness not only in the city, but in the entire country after the announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the three farm laws,” he said. He assured that the BJP government would continue to serve farmers and support them. He along with BJP mandal 1 president Anil Kumar Guddu, mandal 2 president Jaswinder Singh, mandal 3 president Rakhi Pathak, Sanjeev Joshi, Uma Kant Tiwari, former councillor Ashok Kumar Jha, Raman Sally, Navneet Sharma and Davinder Kumar Bhardwaj distributed sweets among farmers. — TNS

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