Two lakh people to participate in Kisan March from three Takhts: SAD

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 30 

As many as two lakh people will join three separate Kisan Marches in 40,000 vehicles starting from all three Sikh religious Takhts to Chandigarh on Thursday where the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will hand over a memorandum demanding revocation of the recently passed Agricultural Acts to the central government through the Punjab Governor.

Disclosing this party senior vice president Daljit Singh Cheema said while party president Sukhbir Singh Badal would lead the Kisan March from Akal Takht, former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal would lead the march from Damdama Sahib at Talwandi Sabo and Prem Singh Chandumajra from Keshgarh Sahib at Sri Anandpur Sahib.

The party spokesman said the march from Amritsar would travel via Jalandhar, Phagwara, Nawanshahr, Ropar, Kurali and Mullanpur before culminating at Chandigarh. He said the march from Talwandi Sabo would travel via Maur, Rampura, Tappa, Barnala, Sangrur, Bhawanigarh, Patiala, Rajpura, Airport light, Zirakpur and Chandigarh. The march from Anandpur Sahib will join the march being led by the SAD president at Ropar bypass.

Cheema said while the March from Amritsar would start at 8 am, that from Talwandi Sabo would start at 8 am and that from Anandpur Sahib would start at 10 am. He said due to shortage of time the programme scheduled to be held at the Dussehra ground at Mohali on the same day had been cancelled.