Protesting farmers will resume their ‘Dilli Chalo’ march from today (March 6) after spending days at the Punjab-Haryana border following clashes that injured several farmers and policemen. The agitators from across the country will proceed to Delhi in buses and on trains.
The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), two umbrella bodies leading the farmer’s agitation, have issued a call for farmers from across the country to reach Delhi on Wednesday. The farmers also called for a four-hour countrywide rail roko on March 10 to press the central government to fulfill their various demands, including a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electricity tariffs, among others.
“Our program to march to Delhi is as it is, we’ve not stepped back from it. It has been decided that we will increase our strength on the borders. On March 6, farmers will come to (Delhi) from all over the country by train, bus, air and we will see whether the government will allow them to sit there or not. On March 10, we will hold ‘Rail Roko’ protest across the country from 12 pm to 4 pm,” farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal had said earlier.
