Farmer group warns of Delhi march on Republic Day if demands not met

Agitating farmers group here on Saturday announced to hold a parade in the national capital on the occasion of Republic Day if their demands are not met by then They declared to hold the march into the city with tractors and trolleys after the end of official paradeThe farmer leaders also made their position clear giving message to the government through media that repeal the three central farm acts or use force to evict usa declaration which comes amid the ongoing protest entering 38th day on Saturday after six round of government farmer talks and the next dialogue fixed on January 4In its first press conference organized by a sevenmember Coordination Committee of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha in the national capital the farmers movement delivered an ultimatum to the government of India announcing ed that farmers will march into Delhi on January 26 2021 with their tractors trolleys and other vehiclesIt was clarified that the farmers republic parade will take place after the official paradeThe decision was announced in a press conference addressed by farmer leaders Balbir Singh Rajewal Darshanpal Gurnam Singh Chadhuni Ashok Dhawale in place for Hannan Mollah Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Abhimanyu Kohad in place for Shiv Kumar Sharma Kakkaji and Yogendra YadavWe intend to be peaceful and we told long ago to the government of India during our talks that it has only two options either repeal the three central farm acts or use force on us to evict us said the farmer leadersThe time has come for decisive action here and we have chosen 26th January both because the Republic Day represents the supremacy of the people and also because we would have demonstrated patiently and peacefully at Delhis borders for two full months in extreme weather conditions by then our resolve to get our demands metSamyukt Kisan Morcha also announced their plan of action till January 26 to intensify and deepen the movementA fortnight of nationwide campaign to counter the governments propaganda called Desh Jagriti Abhiyan during 6th to 20th of January will include rallies conferences and dharnas all over the country Lohri or Sankarnati will be marked as Kisan Sankalp Diwas by burning the copies of these three laws 18th of January will be celebrated as Mahila Kisan Diwas to underline the role of women farmers Azad Hind Kisan Diwas will be marked on Netaji Subhash Chandra Boses birth anniversary on 23rd January by protesting outside Governors official residence in all state capitalsIn a press conference at Singhu Border one of the protesting site at DelhiHaryana route it was already announced on Friday that if the talks on January 4 do not succeed farmers will march on KundliManesarPalwal KMP Expressway on the January 6 and subsequently the Shahjahanpur blockade will also move towards DelhiFarmer leaders made it clear that in the last round of talks with the government though the government agreed to two minor demands of the farmers movement even these are yet to be secured in writing or legal form the major demands of the protesting farmers remain unresolvedOn the demand to repeal the three central farm Acts the government of India had asked the farmer organisations to come up with alternative proposals and the farmer leaders responded by saying that there is no alternative other than repealThe government has refused to agree even in principle to our demand for legal right to purchase at Minimum Support Price MSP We have no alternative and if the government does not meet our demand by the 26th of January we will be left with no option other than to start marching peacefully into Delhi said Samyukt Kisan MorchaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever