Farmers tenting at Delhi’s Singhu and Tikri borders will take out a victory march as we speak. File
Chandigarh:
Farmers tenting at Delhi’s Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders will take out a victory march as we speak as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that pressured the centre to withdraw three contentious farm legal guidelines.
Farmers at the moment are dismantling their makeshift lodging on the border websites because the agitation, which braved forces of nature in addition to tags of “terrorists” and “khalistanis”, attracts to an finish. They’ll collect for some ceremonies and begin their journey dwelling.
Particular preparations have been made alongside the highways to greet the farmers as they head dwelling on tractors, it’s learnt.
The victory march was initially deliberate for yesterday, nevertheless it was postponed within the wake of the tragic helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu that killed 13 individuals, together with Chief of Defence Workers Normal Bipin Rawat.
Rakesh Tikait, the face of the farmers’ protest, informed information company ANI yesterday {that a} giant group of farmers shall vacate the protest websites as we speak. “We are going to discuss, pray and meet the individuals who helped us. Folks have began vacating already, it’s going to take 4-5 days. I’ll depart on December 15,” he mentioned.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to cancel the three legal guidelines, farmers had stayed put on the protest websites, citing different calls for that included a authorized assure on Minimal Assist Value (MSP) and withdrawal of circumstances registered in opposition to protesting farmers.
They announced their decision to return solely after the centre despatched a written proposal on the excellent calls for to the five-member committee of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, which is spearheading the agitation.
The centre has agreed to type a committee to determine the MSP concern. The committee will comprise authorities officers, agriculture specialists and representatives from Kisan Morcha. The federal government has additionally agreed to drop all police circumstances in opposition to farmers, together with stubble burning complaints and people filed by Haryana and Uttar Pradesh police following clashes with protesters.
On the Kisan Morcha’s demand for compensation for the deaths of 700-odd farmers through the protest, the centre has mentioned Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have given in-principle approval and Punjab has already made an announcement.
The centre’s proposal had come after Union House Minister Amit Shah spoke to farmer leaders over the cellphone to debate excellent points.
With the farmers returning dwelling after forcing the federal government right into a climdown, the main focus now shifts away from the protest websites on Delhi borders to the Meeting ballot enviornment in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
All eyes will now be on what impression the farmers’ agitation, and the ruthless makes an attempt to crush it, have on the end result of those polls, particularly in politically-crucial Uttar Pradesh the place 4 protesting farmers have been run over, allegedly by a Union Minister’s son.
