As stir nears one month, more farmers to head to Delhi from Punjab

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 21

With the protest against the Centre’s farm laws in Delhi set to complete one month, farmer unions have decided to intensify the stir as more farmers from Punjab will head to Delhi under ‘Dilli Chalo’ call.

BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) state secretary Shingara Singh Mann said “A group of 15,000 farmers from Amritsar would leave to Delhi through Singhu border on December 25. A same number of farmers would leave from Khanouri border on December 26 and 15,000 more farmers would leave from Dabwali border to Delhi on December 27.”

Thousands of farmers have been staying put at several Delhi border points for the last 26 days, demanding a repeal of the new agri laws.

Apart from stir at the Delhi border, farmers’ protests are going on at toll plazas, outside Best Price wholesale store at Bucho, Reliance Market in Bathinda, Talwandi Sabo power plant at Baniwala in Mansa and at many places in the region.

The farmers also staged protests and sit-ins outside residences and offices of BJP leaders in the state.