Last Updated: March 09, 2024, 00:09 IST
Women farmers throughout their ongoing protest on the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border in Patiala district, on 8 March 2024. (PTI picture)
The girls farmers stated the continuing stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers
On the event of International Women’s Day on Friday, girls farmers took centrestage on the farmers’ ongoing protest websites at Shambhu and Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border. The girls farmers stated the continuing stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers.
As the stir at Shambhu and Khanauri protest websites entered its twenty fifth day, many ladies farmers reached there. A mahila panchayat was additionally organised through which various girls participated. Senior farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher, who’s amongst these spearheading the continuing stir, had earlier stated girls farmers will take centrestage on worldwide girls’s day.
”Our theme shall be what ought to be the position of rural girls in successful this morcha,” he stated. Women farmer leaders Sukhwinder Kaur, Samita Kaur Mangat and Gurpreet Kaur stated on the event that 1000’s of girls farmers from Punjab and Haryana participated on the protest websites. They thanked the ladies for coming to the protest websites and increasing help to the continuing protest in help of varied calls for of farmers.
Many girls farmers stated the stir will proceed until the Centre offers a authorized assure of minimal help value (MSP) for crops. Some additionally raised slogans in help of the farmers’ calls for. They stated girls farmers have made a particular contribution within the improvement of the nation, be it inexperienced revolution or white revolution.
Women farmer leaders stated they will even take part within the ’Rail Roko’ protest on March 10. History is witness that the ladies of the nation have all the time contributed shoulder-to-shoulder with the boys within the improvement and welfare of the nation, they stated.
Farmer leaders additionally stated girls have performed a serious position in a number of actions prior 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 help 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 just 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.
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