Farmers demand rollback of agri ordinances

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 21

Despite Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s appeal in view of spread of Covid-19 disease, a large number of farmers from around the region on Tuesday assembled here and gheraoed the residence of MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh till late evening hours. Traffic from Nakodar Chowk to Football Chowk remained disrupted for hours. Continuing their protest that started around 1 pm, farmers ate their food outside the MP’s house.

Fearing a discontinuation of the minimum support price (MSP) regime, farmers, labourers including women, under the Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee, Punjab, raised anti-government slogans and displayed their dissent against the recent ordinances passed by the Modi government concerning agriculture sector.

The Capt government has failed to protect the interest of farmers, they demanded that ordinances be withdrawn and threatened to intensify the agitation if the government failed to do so.

Gurlal Singh, finance secretary of the committee, said, “Farmers are against the three ordinances which the Centre had promulgated.