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A brand new protest tune on lips and provides to ultimate iciness: farmers get ready for lengthy haul


Written by means of Raakhi Jagga
| Ludhiana |

November 26, 2020 10:47:11 am





Protesting farmers are sporting ingesting water in tankers (information Picture by means of Gurmeet Singh)

Khich le Jatta khich tayari pecha pai gaya Centre naal (Come on farmer, make all preparations for marching on. It’s a right away disagreement with Centre). As farmers marched in opposition to Punjab- Haryana borders from other portions of the state, this was once the tune that blared from their tractors.

Launched ultimate week by means of Kanwar Grewal and Harf Cheema, the tune ‘Pecha’ talks about farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ programme and asks farmers to get in a position for this national stir on November 26-27 in an effort to protest in opposition to farm expenses.

“A conservative determine of all farmers from 30 organisations, who will participate within the protest, may also be round 1.25 lakh women and men, together with some youngsters,” stated Dr Darshan Friend, president of Kirti Kisan Union.

Along with this, over 2 lakh farmers of BKU (Ugrahan) are anticipated to pass thru two highways of Punjab-Haryana to march in opposition to Delhi.

Over all, 40,000 ladies might be a part of this protest out of which almost 35,000 might be of BKU (Ugrahan) and the remainder at different places of different 30 farmer unions.

The entire protesters from all unions are anticipated to the touch round 3.25 lakh. State management might be main the marches, adopted by means of ladies after which males, stated farmer union leaders.

As villagers are coming in huge numbers from other districts of Punjab, they’re being instructed to make detailed preparations.

Farmers have sufficient ration to look them thru 3-Four months

The listing comprises – round 5 woollen garments in line with member, private utensils for consuming meals for each farmer, personal bedding, blanket, all trolleys. Additional, tractors should be totally coated with water resistant sheets and must have good enough torch preparations inside of. There must be few bikes in line with jatha saved in separate cars which can be utilized in case of emergency by means of contributors to shuttle from one position to some other. Few folding beds in line with jatha also are being saved.

“Farmers have additionally organized paddy stubble in lots of trolleys which can be utilized as sheets to be unfold underneath in trolleys in order that one can really feel the heat. Dry ration for 3-Four months has been stocked by means of every jatha together with onions, potatoes, spices, greens, pulses and so forth…huge utensils to cook dinner this meals, picket as a gasoline to cook dinner this meals whilst LPG cylinders may also be organized from within sight spaces the place the morchas might be organised. Those preparations are performed for struggles as a rule and this time the fight appears to be lengthy,” stated Shingaara Singh, BKU(Ugrahan)’s Bathinda unit leader.

He stated, ‘’We can argue with Haryana government to present us a option to march forward and if we’re stopped then we will be able to sit down at that very position. We don’t seem to be going to wreck any barricades. However we will be able to keep at the ones websites for per week most effective and later will give but some other programme.”

A complete of four,000 trolleys, 1,600 buses had been organized by means of Ugrahan crew on my own, whilst the opposite 30 unions have now not but given the precise selection of their cars which can march on this programme in opposition to farm rules.

Each and every automobile will lift a flag of the farm union and each player may have a flag in hand and badge on his/her get dressed.

“The hurdles will be unable to forestall farmers on option to Delhi, they’re decided and all of us have listened that no matter we withstand, it persists…Vela aa gaya jaag kisana….de machine de halaq ch fana.. khet tere khon nu firde joh tu paida keete entar naal (time has come for the farmer to get up and take the battle to the machine. They’re looking to clutch our farms, that have been irrigated with entar tractor ( an outdated emblem of tractor),” Lachman Singh Sewewala, Khet Mazdoor Union’s state common secretary, stated this as he listened to ‘Pecha’ once more. Mentioning that farmers also are sporting emergency drugs, Sewewala added,”Other folks on social media remark that Punjab’s farmers are the richest…If they’re so wealthy, why lakhs are dozing on roads for the previous 2 months? “

 

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