The protesting farmers will resume their agitation with a nationwide ‘Rail Roko’ on March 10 from 12 pm to 4 pm, farm leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal announced on Sunday. The protesting farmers, who are camping at the border points between Punjab and Haryana, will begin marching towards Delhi on March 6 in a “peaceful manner”, the farm leaders said.
Rail Roko On 10th March
Pandher and Dallewal, who were speaking in Punjab’s Balloh village – the native place of a farmer who died recently during clashes – said that the farmers will intensify their agitation at the existing protest points till their demands are met by the Centre.
Protest Will Continue On the Shambhu Border
The farms from far away states, who cannot reach on tractor trolleys, should head to Delhi by trains and by other means of transport. It will also become clear whether the government allows those farmers to enter those farmers without tractor trolleys…At Shambhu and Khanauri, the agitation will continue like before and will be further intensified
About Farmers Protest
- The ‘Delhi Chalo’ march by more than 200 cultivators’ unions, including the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, began on February 13, to press the Centre to accept several demands.
- The farm bodies are demanding a law guaranteeing a minimum support price (MSP) – a condition they had set in 2021 when they agreed to withdraw their agitation against the now-repealed farm laws.
- They are also demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pensions for farm bodies and farm laborers, and farm debt waiver.