Farmers to court arrest in Tohana today: SKM
Tribune News Service
Panipat, June 4
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Friday decided to court arrest at the City police station in Tohana on Saturday against the arrest of farmers following a spat with Tohana MLA Devender Babli.
Thousands of farmers led by leaders Rakesh Tikait and Gurnam Singh Charuni would move to Tohana to court arrest on Saturday, the SKM claimed.
This was decided in the general body meeting of the SKM leaders at the Kisan Andolan office in Kundli on Friday.
The farmer leaders discussed the incidents that have occurred recently, especially in Hisar and Tohana, in detail and also contemplated on how to intensify the protest peacefully.
To protest peacefully
If BJP or JJP leaders attend personal functions, farmers will not oppose them. But if they attend a public rally, farmers will oppose them peacefully. —Gurnam Singh Charuni , BKU leader
SKM leaders Yudhvir Singh, Charuni, Abhimanyu Kohar and other leaders — at a press conference after the general body meeting — said the discussion focused on the recent incidents that have taken place in Haryana.
The SKM feels that the farmers in Hisar and Jind were provoked intentionally to shift the agitation from the Delhi borders on the directions of the Centre, alleged Yudhvir.
He also claimed that the local MLA from Tohana abused the farmers and, subsequently, the police arrested some of them.
Tikait has been sitting on dharna at the Mayyar toll plaza since yesterday against the arrest of farmers in Tohana.
It has also been decided to constitute a women’s committee at all morchas to resolve women’s problems during their stay at the protest sites.
The farmers’ protest and awakening programme would be launched in Uttar Pradesh after the Covid pandemic and monsoon, said Yudhvir.
Farmers will observe Baba Banda Bahadur Day on June 9 at all protest sites and will pay tribute to six farmers, who had died on June 6, 2017, in Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) during firing, at all protest sites on the Delhi borders on June 6.
