Farmers Campaigning At Shambhu and Khanauri Borders Threaten Delhi March On Feb 25 If Talks With Centre Fail On Feb 14

Chandigarh: The farmers camping at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders of Punjab and Haryana for the about past one year, on Monday threatened to resume their protest foot-march on February 25 if their upcoming February 14 meeting with the Central ministers fails to give any solution to their demands including minimum support price (MSP) and debt waiver.

Addressing newspersons at Shambhu border protest site, senior farm leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said that leaders from various farm organisations across the country will also gather at Shambhu, along with a large number of farmers and labourers from northern states, on February 13, to mark year of the farmers protest at the two borders named above.

He added that if no concrete solution emerges from the February 14 meeting between farm leaders and the Central ministers, a protest march from Shambhu border to Delhi will begin on February 25.

Stating that efforts are being made to take the ongoing struggle for resolving the crisis in the agricultural sector to a broader level by strengthening unity with allied organisations, Pandher said that a delegation of leaders will meet in Chandigarh on February 12.

He also lauded the 302-km run to Parliament by young athlete coach Dilpreet Singh from Khanna in support of the farmers’ demands.

Flaying what he termed as the unjust cases filed under Section 307 (attempt to murder) against farmer leaders for their peaceful protest during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election campaign on February 5, 2022, in Punjab, Pandher demanded that these cases be withdrawn.