Protest on Day 3: Farmers will stop trains today...
Protest on Day 3: Farmers will stop trains today...
Delhi Farmers' chalo protest: Amid a standoff at the data-borders of punjab and Haryana, three Union ministers will meet with leaders of the farming community in chandigarh for the third round of negotiations.Many prominent farmer unions have pledged their support to the farmer unions protesting at the data-borders of Shambhu and Khanauri in Punjab. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) and BKU Dakaunda (Dhaner faction) have announced a "rail roko" (stop trains) in the state on thursday, february 15, between 12 noon and 4 pm. The current protests have also received backing from the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organization of 37 farm unions. For their crops, the demonstrators are calling for a minimum support price, or MSP.These unions joined the current protests in response to the "condemnable use of violence" against farmers, and they had been major players in the fringe demonstrations in delhi in 2021. Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan, general secretary of BKU (Ugrahan), has criticized the police action. "We are united in our support of them. He declared, "Our supporters will stop trains, or rail roko, at as many locations as we can to demonstrate this. He stated that the group will shut down train lines in punjab on thursday from 12 to 4 p.m., one day ahead of the wider nationwide walkout scheduled for february 16.
Delhi Farmers' chalo protest: Amid a standoff at the data-borders of punjab and Haryana, three Union ministers will meet with leaders of the farming community in chandigarh for the third round of negotiations.Many prominent farmer unions have pledged their support to the farmer unions protesting at the data-borders of Shambhu and Khanauri in Punjab. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) and BKU Dakaunda (Dhaner faction) have announced a "rail roko" (stop trains) in the state on thursday, february 15, between 12 noon and 4 pm. The current protests have also received backing from the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organization of 37 farm unions. For their crops, the demonstrators are calling for a minimum support price, or MSP.These unions joined the current protests in response to the "condemnable use of violence" against farmers, and they had been major players in the fringe demonstrations in delhi in 2021. Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan, general secretary of BKU (Ugrahan), has criticized the police action. "We are united in our support of them. He declared, "Our supporters will stop trains, or rail roko, at as many locations as we can to demonstrate this. He stated that the group will shut down train lines in punjab on thursday from 12 to 4 p.m., one day ahead of the wider nationwide walkout scheduled for february 16.