Farmers To Observe ‘Black Day’ Tomorrow Over Protester’s Death, Tractor Marches Across India On Feb 26 | Top Points

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday demanded the registration of a homicide case over the dying of a protesting farmer on the Punjab-Haryana border and introduced a ‘Black Day’ on Friday and a tractor march on February 26 to sentence the incident.

22-year-old protesting farmer, Subhkaran Singh, died on Wednesday amid clashes between Haryana Police and Punjab farmers. Farmers had put their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest march on maintain for 2 days after the incident, which had left a minimum of 12 different peasants injured.

The SKM, after a gathering in Chandigarh, mentioned farmers will take out tractor marches on highways throughout the nation on February 26 and maintain a Mahapanchayat in Delhi on March 14. It mentioned the farmers on Friday will burn effigies of Union Residence Minister Amit Shah and his Haryana counterpart Anil Vij to sentence the police motion.

The farmer leaders had rejected a authorities proposal within the fourth spherical of talks, resulting in the resumption of the protest.

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on February 13 morning started their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to press for his or her calls for, amid heavy barricading at Haryana-Punjab border and entry factors into the Nationwide Capital. Nonetheless, most of them had been stopped by safety personnel at Shambhu and Khanauri factors on Punjab’s border with Haryana. The protesters have stayed put on the two border factors since then.

Over 200 farmers’ unions, together with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, are collaborating within the march to press the Centre to just accept their calls for.

Apart from a authorized assure of MSP, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Fee’s suggestions, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.

Listed here are the most recent developments within the farmers’ protest

• A case of homicide must be registered over the dying of the farmer at Khanauri border and his household be given Rs 1 crore in compensation, SKM chief Balbir Singh Rajewal advised reporters right here. Subhkaran Singh, a local of Bathinda district, was introduced useless at a hospital from Khanauri on the Sangrur-Jind border.
• The federal government is hopeful of a decision on the farmers’ protest a lot earlier than the graduation of the wheat procurement season from March, Meals Secretary Sanjeev Chopra mentioned on Thursday.
• Farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher mentioned they’ll determine the subsequent plan of action on Friday night.
• Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Balbir Singh Rajyawal mentioned on March 14, ‘mahapanchayat’ of farmers will probably be held at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.
• From tomorrow, there will probably be demonstrations daily, mentioned farmer chief Rakesh Tikait.
• The Delhi Meeting on Thursday expressed its condolences concerning the dying of 21-year-old Shubhkaran Singh throughout farmers’ protest on the Punjab-Haryana border, calling it “very painful”.
• Farmer chief Tikait mentioned, “On February 26, we’ll take tractors to the freeway, in direction of the best way that goes to Delhi, we’ll enter into the state freeway and central freeway. It is going to be a one-day programme after which we’ll return. Then all throughout India, our conferences will go on.
• He mentioned, “On March 14, there will probably be a programme at Ramlila floor in Delhi for someday. Individuals will go with out tractors to that occasion.”
• The SKM, which spearheaded the 2020-21 farmers’ protest in opposition to the Centre’s now repealed three farm legal guidelines, was not part of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march earlier and was solely supporting it. On Thursday, it jumped into the agitation.
• The Congress on Thursday escalated its assault on the BJP-led Centre over the farmers’ protest and demanded {that a} particular session of Parliament be convened to debate the urgent problems with the tillers. The opposition get together additionally urged the Punjab authorities to convene an identical session of the state meeting to deliberate on the problem.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday mentioned his authorities was giving precedence to each side linked to villages and likewise specializing in enhancing the lives of small farmers by means of numerous schemes and initiatives.