Alarge number of city residents including children and school/college goingstudents along with farmers’ and members belonging to different organizations todaygheraoed the District Administrative Complex (DAC) here this morning.
Theprotesters on tractors, cars, bikes and on foot gathered outside the DAC inmorning around 11am, and organised a sit-in dharna outside the complex till 3pm Holding placards and posters, the protesting residents raised slogansagainst the centre government, demanding role back the three recently passed farmlaws.
“Afarmer is a magician who produces money from the mud”, reads a poster held byGursharan Kaur, which grabbed everyone's eyeball. Showing resentment againstthe three contentious agricultural legislations, Gursharan said, as the protestis expanding every day, it’s disheartening to see our brothers and sisters,braving cold nights on the outskirts of Delhi to preserve our rights. “Even aswe are forced to hit the roads, we won’t lose hope until the “Kala Kanoon”(black laws) are repealed”, she said.
Alongwith her hundreds of farmers from around the region, including women andchildren, gathered here to show solidarity with the farmers protesting at theDelhi borders.
Atractor rally was also carried out by the young generation of farmers in frontof the DC office to draw support from the locals. With the heavy deployment ofcops, the farmers made sure that their presence was felt on the city roads.Sloganeering against the Modi-led-BJP government, the farmers threatened tointensify their agitation regionally in the days to come.
JarnailSingh, General Secretary, Bhartiya Kissan Union (BKU), Kadian stated that,different farm outfits including, BKU-Kadia, Doaba, Lakhowal, Jamhuru, Rajewal,Kissan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee, Punjab Kissan Union and others were presenttoday to mark the occasion. Apart from that, member of Punjab ArthiyaAssociation, Aganwadi workers union and other contractual workers union alsolent their support to the farmers.
Citingthe Supreme Court’s statements, that the laws are not beneficial for thefarmers, Harnam Singh, senior vice president of the District ArthiyaAssociation said, “disorganizing the existing Agricultural Produce MarketCommittee (APMC) system will only privatize the mandis and the monopoly willremain only in the hands of the private dealers. Hence, to offer a better priceto the farmers for their crops, the laws should be revoked. Mere announcing theamendments or written notifications won’t be enough the contest the laws,therefore, they need to be revoked in the parliament”.