As they rejected Centre’s provide of deferring the farm legal guidelines for greater than a yr, leaders of farmer unions stated that one of many key causes for doing so was that such a transfer wouldn’t have discovered acceptance again house in Punjab. They identified that the protest had been successful due to wholehearted help from every farmer and any determination in Delhi needs to be totally reflective of their sentiments.
Back in Punjab, farmers supporting the stir agreed, saying that unions will lose credibility in the event that they return with out repeal of controversial farm legal guidelines.
Gurvinder Singh (45) a small farmer with 3 acres of land from Dharamgarh village in Sangrur, stated: “It (government) may take time but cannot ignore such a large number of protestors…Our leaders have repeatedly told us that nobody will return from Delhi unless laws are cancelled and the law on Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops is not passed by the Centre,” he stated, including that this was the one cause to maneuver to Delhi and now there was no query of retreating with out this achievement set forth.
Buta Singh (35) with six acres of land in village Kanankwal stated that their leaders had instructed them clearly that they may come again solely after getting the calls for accepted and this was the explanation that farmers supported the motion overwhelmingly.
Mamta Rani, a farm lady from the identical village, echoed related opinion and stated that her household has been at Tikri border since November 26. “We have been spending stressed nights right here. Now all this can’t go waste by accepting something however our calls for.
The farmers in Punjab are supporting the protesters with solely this hope that they won’t return empty handed….The motion has taken root of their coronary heart, and other people is not going to settle for something lower than repeal even when their leaders conform to authorities proposals,” Rani stated.
“After the reports that there were some farmers’ leaders out of 32 unions of Punjab had agreed to the proposal of the centre government, the restlessness among the farmers back home has increased and they have have started calling us that how they can agree to anything less than the repealment,” stated an area chief of Bharti Kisan Union (Ugrahan).
“There is no point of listening to anything except the cancellation of laws as our leaders had told us that there was a single goal and because of which we had supported them wholeheartedly by sending our families to Delhi,” stated farmer Kulwant Singh from Mansa, including that now the battle is being led by the frequent farmer of Punjab.
“During our village level meetings for collecting ration and other essentials for the protesting farmers in Delhi, the people have opened their hearts with all types of contributions but they are not ready to listen that farmers leaders would agree to any other proposal,” stated a Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee chief.
“Agreeing to any other proposal except our demands would lead to loss of faith in the unions,” stated farmer Gurdev Singh, including that their leaders is not going to ditch them.
“Every village has placed the permanent trollies at Singhu and Tikri borders where they are living in such trolley-homes for the past around two months in such a harsh and bone chilling weather conditions and their sacrifice cannot be wasted at any cost,” stated one other farmer, Satwinder Singh Sandhu of Batala in district Gurdaspur, including that it’s a historic battle and its outcomes have to be historic solely within the type of getting legislation on MSP.
Amrik Singh, a farmer from Wadala Kalan in Kapurthala, stated that the sacrifice of our 143 farmers, who misplaced their lives within the protest, can’t be honoured with out getting the “genuine demands accepted by the government”.
“When we go to the villages we get only one question that when the government is going to cancel these bills as the common farmers here has only one thing in mind and that is cancellation of bills,” stated BKU (Ugrahan) Leader Rimpa Singh, who had come again from Tikri after spending round 45 days and going again tomorrow once more for a ‘tractor parade’.
He additional stated that not solely our leaders, however farmers again in Punjab is not going to conform to any modification or proposal.
