Allow farmers’ march on R-Day, SAD urges Centre

Chandigarh, January 18

The SAD today asked the Centre not to deny the constitutional right for a peaceful march in Delhi to law-abiding farmers of the country on January 26. The call came at the end of a three-hour meeting of the core committee of the party held at the party headquarters here today.

Harcharan Singh Bains, Principal Adviser to the SAD president, said the meeting considered the government’s dragging of its feet over permission for the peaceful democratic march as “grossly violative of the very Constitution which the Republic Day symbolises”. “The farmers of the country have already declared that their peaceful march will be a celebration of the spirit of the Constitution for which the nation celebrates Republic Day. The march by farmers will in fact be a reminder that India is a democratic Republic and is neither a monarchy nor a dictatorial set-up,” said a resolution passed at the meeting. — TNS