Samyukt Kisan Morcha calls upon farmers to hold protests across nation on March 28   

Hitting out at Punjab Police's crackdown on the protesting farmers, national coordination committee of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called upon farmers across India to hold demonstrations across the country on March 28.

"The National Coordination Committee of SKM calls upon the farmers to hold protest demonstrations at districts across India on March 28 against the police repression on farmers' protest in Punjab," the farmer's union said in statement on Sunday.

The SKM also urged all farmer organisations and platforms, including Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and SKM (Non Political), to join issue-based unity and come forward "to unite against repression".

"On the direction of the Bhagwant Mann-led state government, Punjab Police had arrested and put in jail 350 farmer leaders and activists, including Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher. The police had bulldozed the tents and stages of agitating farmers at Khanauri and Shambu borders and forcibly removed tractor trailers, trolleys and other appliances," the statement said.