-Resolve farmers issue, if turmoil begins in Punjab whole country will suffer, Congress warns ruling BJP
-Protesting Farmers campaign in Bengal, urge people to ‘defeat BJP’
-Farmers’ protest entered 112th day on Wednesday
DM Monitoring
NEW DELHI: Ahead of their Sampurna Bharat Bandh on March 26, farmer leaders on Wednesday said they were preparing to intensify the agitation against the three farm laws.During the nationwide strike on March 26 that also marks four months of the farmers’ movement, all shops and other business establishments will remain shut for 12 hours, followed by the burning of the copies of the three laws during “holika dehan” on March 28.
Meanwhile in the day, the Congress urged the Centre to resolve the ongoing farmers’ protests and warned that if turmoil begins again in Punjab, the whole country will suffer. Raising the issue of farmers protests in Lok Sabha, the leader of the Congress party in the Lower House, Ravneet Singh Bittu, also requested Speaker Om Birla to invite leaders of all political parties for a meeting to find a solution to the farmers’ demands.
Earlier, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of the farmer unions protesting against the Centre’s new farm reform laws at Delhi’s borders said the government should remove “obstacles” and open the doors for dialogue, over a month and a half since the talks between the two sides hit a roadblock.
The government and the farmers have held 11 rounds of talks, the last one being on January 22, to break the deadlock and end the protests at different border points of the national capital.
While, in an unprecedented move, several farm leaders protesting at the Delhi border for over 100 days reached the poll-bound state of West Bengal for a three-day visit to campaign against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
One overarching message given by the leaders under the umbrella organisation Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is spearheading the protest at Delhi’s borders against the Centre’s farm laws, was “Defeat BJP.
Don’t vote for the BJP.” In three days the farm leaders addressed five mahapanchayats in Bengal, two in Kolkata and one each in Nandigram, Singur and Asansol.
