Several batches of farmers in tractor-trolleys continue to head for Delhi to participate in proposed Republic Day ‘tractor parade’.
Farmers in Punjab and Haryana on January 13 burnt copies of the recent Central farm laws in “Lohri bonfire” as a mark of protest and shouted slogans against the Union government even as several batches of farmers in tractor-trolleys continued to head for Delhi to participate in a proposed Republic Day ‘tractor parade’ against the laws.
Farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee (KMSC) burnt copies of the laws in as many as 11 districts of Punjab, primarily in Majha and Doaba region, while the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) members consigned copies of the laws to flames in close to 1600 villages in 16 districts of the State, according to Sukhdev Singh, general secretary, BKU(U).
Sarvan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the KMSC, said that another batch of thousands of farmers and farm labourers from…
