Ahead of their assembly with the Centre on Monday, protesting farmer unions introduced they might have fun Lohri on January 13 by “burning” the copies of the brand new farm legal guidelines if their calls for weren’t met. Addressing a press convention on the Singhu border on Sunday, the farmers reiterated that they might not return till the three contentious farm legal guidelines had been repealed.
“We will celebrate Lohri on January 13 by burning the copies of the farm laws. We will celebrate Kisan Diwas on January 23, on the occasion of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary,” ANI quoted farmers’ chief Manjeet Singh Rai as saying.
Another chief Onkar Singh urged the federal government to shun its “stubbornness”. “Today is 37th day of our protest, the govt should leave its stubbornness. We won’t go back till laws are taken back. It’s disappointing that farmers are losing their lives. So many farmers are braving the cold yet the govt is not taking it seriously,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.
Braving the chilly, 1000’s of farmers, primarily from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting at varied borders of the nationwide capital for greater than a month. Farmers’ chief Harmeet Singh Kadian mentioned, “It’s been raining, so we are trying to get waterproof tents although they are not up to government standard. We are trying to arrange blankets and warm water for women and the elderly.”
The Samyukt Kisan Union, the umbrella physique of farmer unions tenting on the gates of Delhi to press their calls for, advised the media on Saturday that if all their calls for weren’t met by January 26 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to be the chief visitor on the Republic Day celebrations this yr – the farmers shall “peacefully and non-violently” lead a tractor parade into Delhi and throughout the nation.
“If by January 26, the demands are not met by the government, then farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders shall peacefully and non-violently lead a trolley/tractor parade into Delhi. These marches shall also be held in all state and district capitals,” BKU (Sidhupur) president Darshanpal had mentioned.
At their final assembly on December 30, the Centre agreed to “decriminalise” stubble burning by excluding farmers from the ambit of the ‘Commission for the Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance 2020’, and drop these provisions of the draft Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020, which intend to alter the present mode of subsidy fee to customers.
The authorities and farmer unions are scheduled to fulfill once more on January 4 to determine on calls for to repeal the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines and provision of authorized assure on the minimal help worth for procurement — farmer unions are urgent for the enactment of a central MSP Act, masking 23 crops grown within the nation.
