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Ladies farmers throughout their ongoing protest on the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border in Patiala district, on 8 March 2024. (PTI photograph)
The ladies farmers mentioned the continued stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers
On the event of Worldwide Ladies’s Day on Friday, girls farmers took centrestage on the farmers’ ongoing protest websites at Shambhu and Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border. The ladies farmers mentioned the continued stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers.
Because the stir at Shambhu and Khanauri protest websites entered its twenty fifth day, many ladies farmers reached there. A mahila panchayat was additionally organised by which quite a lot of girls participated. Senior farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher, who’s amongst these spearheading the continued stir, had earlier mentioned girls farmers will take centrestage on worldwide girls’s day.
”Our theme might be what must be the position of rural girls in successful this morcha,” he mentioned. Ladies farmer leaders Sukhwinder Kaur, Samita Kaur Mangat and Gurpreet Kaur mentioned on the event that hundreds of girls farmers from Punjab and Haryana participated on the protest websites. They thanked the ladies for coming to the protest websites and lengthening assist to the continued protest in assist of assorted calls for of farmers.
Many ladies farmers mentioned the stir will proceed until the Centre provides a authorized assure of minimal assist value (MSP) for crops. Some additionally raised slogans in assist of the farmers’ calls for. They mentioned girls farmers have made a particular contribution within the improvement of the nation, be it inexperienced revolution or white revolution.
Ladies farmer leaders mentioned they can even take part within the ’Rail Roko’ protest on March 10. Historical past is witness that the ladies of the nation have at all times contributed shoulder-to-shoulder with the lads within the improvement and welfare of the nation, they mentioned.
Farmer leaders additionally mentioned girls have performed a significant position in a number of actions up to now. Farmer leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal had on Sunday given a name to the farmers throughout the nation to achieve Delhi on March 6 for a protest whereas that they had additionally given a four-hour ’Rail Roko’ countrywide name for March 10 in assist of their numerous calls for.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) are spearheading the ’Delhi Chalo’ march by farmers to press the federal government to simply accept their calls for which incorporates that the Centre ought to give a authorized assure of MSP for crops. The protesting farmers have been staying put on the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors between Punjab and Haryana after their ’Delhi Chalo’ march was stopped by the safety forces.
They started their march on February 13 however have been stopped by the safety forces, which led to clashes on the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors on Haryana-Punjab border.
