Bharat Bandh: Women farmers take up baton

Tribune News Service

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Jalandhar, February 14

Women farmers have taken charge and they are working hard to ensure full support from people in rural areas for Bharat Bandh.

Rajwinder Kaur, president of the Mahila Kisan Union, said meetings were being held at the ground level for the past several days.

The Mahila Kisan Union is an integral part of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). Union members have urged Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to register criminal cases against the Haryana Police for firing shots at farmers proceeding peacefully towards Delhi within the borders of Punjab.

The president of the union alleged that the Haryana Government, under the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was perpetrating brutal atrocities against farmers who were exercising their democratic rights for implementation of MSP laws.

Condemning the anti-farmer attitude of Manohar Lal Khattar government she called upon the voters to defeat the saffron party during the upcoming general elections.

Women farmers are holding flag march in every street and raising slogans to make people aware of Bharat Bandh. “We are also making announcements from gurdwaras,” she said.

Jathedar Kashmir Singh, coordinator of the Doaba region, BKU Rajewal, said they had been reaching out to every shopkeeper, worker, etc., ahead of the Bharat Bandh call.

“We have been holding meetings at the block and village level and getting immense support,” he said.

Tarpreet Singh, district convener of the youth wing of the Kirti Kisan Union, said they had been touring rural areas in Doaba with the motive of convincing villagers to follow the Bandh call. “We hope that the bandh will be successful,” he said.

Meetings at block, village level

Jathedar Kashmir Singh, coordinator of the Doaba region, BKU Rajewal, said they had been reaching out to every shopkeeper, worker, etc., ahead of the Bharat Bandh call. “We have been holding meetings at the block and village level and getting immense support,” he said.

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