New Delhi: The protest by farmers on Singhu, Tikri and Gazipur entry points on Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh continued for the 46th day on Sunday.
Punjab’s farmer leader Sukhpal Singh, who is involved in the ongoing protest at Delhi’s Singhu border since November 26, told that the decision of farmer leaders on the agitation was considered at a Sanyukt Kisan Morcha meeting in the afternoon.
Sukhpal Singh, who was present at the 8th round of talks with the central government as a representative of sugarcane farmers from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, said that farmer leaders also deliberated on the pleas regarding farmers’ protest that would come up for hearing in the Supreme Court in the coming days.
Harinder Singh, another farmer leader from Punjab and General Secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal), told : “We are discussing among ourselves the next round of talks with the Centre.”
He asserted that the protest will continue till the government did not repeal the three farm laws and gave MSP guarantee for crops through a law.
“Various issues, including the strategy to intensify the agitation, are getting discussed, though our primary focus is on the preparations for the proposed January 26 protest in Delhi.”
Farmer organisations have warned that if their two demands are not accepted by the Centre before January 26, they would hold a ‘Kisan Parade’ on tractors on the Republic Day in New Delhi. Many other key agitation programmes have already been announced by the farmer unions.
