After harvest, farmers return to Singhu

Tribune News Service

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Karnal, May 13

After the harvesting of wheat crop, farmers from Punjab have started returning to the Singhu border, where they had been staging a dharna since November, last year, to press their demand of repealing the three farm laws passed by the Union government.

Farmers are determined to continue their struggle even in adverse weather conditions. On the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, water flooded into tents and other structures at the Singhu border. “While farmers were prepared for at least six months of struggle when they first came to Delhi in late November, this time, they are prepared for a long period. Therefore, along with langar and stay, farmers are making other necessary arrangements as well,” said leaders of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) in a joint statement.

Leaders, including Abhimanyu Kohar, Balbir Singh Rajewal, Dr Darshan Pal, Gurnam Singh Charuni, Hannan Mollah, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Yudhvir Singh and Yogendra Yadav said the farmers had set up a flour mill at the Singhu Border.

Farmer organisations have also kept a large stock of drinking water. All these efforts of the farmers are a direct message to the Union Government that till their demands are not met, they will continue to fight with full force.

“The agricultural laws are a bigger disaster than any natural calamity. The government is responsible for the troubles that the farmers are facing,” they said.

Leaders of 12 political parties have also demanded that the government should repeal the farm laws, so that the farmers’ lives can be protected in the pandemic.