Farmers' protest: AIKS stages street plays during protests in Rohtak

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 25

Protest demonstrations, dharnas and road-blockades by farmers’ organisations came in response to the three agricultural Bills recently passed by the Parliament in Rohtak.

Members of the Leftist farmers’ body All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) staged protest demonstrations and blocked roads leading to Hisar, Jind, Panipat, Jhajjar and Bhiwani from Rohtak.

Blockades were laid as part of protest demonstrations at Lakhanmajra, Titoli, Bhaini Surjanpur, Bahu Akbarpur, Mayna and Brahman was villages located on different national and state highways.

Apart from raising slogans against the government, activists of Jatan Natak Manch, a Leftist organisation, also staged a nukkad natak (street-play) depicting the adverse consequences of the three agriculture-related Bills on Haryana farmers at different sites during the dharnas and demonstrations.

AIKS state vice-president Inderjit Singh, secretary Sumit Singh and district unit president Preet Singh said the Central, as well as the state governments, were trying to mislead the farmers by stating that the MSP regime would remain intact.

Independent Meham MLA Balraj Kundu led the farmers’ protest, during which they blocked the Delhi-Hisar National Highway No. 9 at Bahu Akbarpur village in Rohtak district.