Farmers, rice millers and arhtiyas (fee brokers) have given a name for “chakka jam” (intentionally making a site visitors jam as a type of protest) in complete Punjab on Sunday for 3 hours from 12 midday in protest towards the insurance policies of Punjab authorities and the Centre concerning crop procurement and paddy lifting within the state.
The choice was taken in a joint assembly of arhtiyas, millers and farmer organisations in Chandigarh on Friday, as based on them, the governments haven’t began procuring crops and lifting paddy even after October 1, the start of kharif harvest season in Punjab. They may meet once more on October 14 and chalk out a future technique for a large protest, if required, alongside the traces of the farmers’ agitation of 2020-21.
The farmer organisations met with each arhtiya associations and sheller house owners underneath the banner of the United Kisan Morcha. Within the assembly which lasted for about two-and-a-half hours, they agreed that if they don’t battle collectively, not solely the agricultural disaster will compound but additionally different companies related to it could undergo, based on an announcement issued by the United Kisan Morcha.
The leaders instructed that one other motion on the traces of Delhi border kisan agitation must be began to place stress on the Centre and the state.
Balbir Singh Rajewal, the chief of the United Kisan Morcha, stated the Morcha has determined to carry collectively all of the organisations associated to agriculture on one platform and organise a motion to avoid wasting farming in Punjab.
Rajewal stated, “On October 13, site visitors shall be blocked from 12 midday to three pm in Punjab, whereas on October 14, a joint assembly of all of the state’s organisations, together with worker and labour outfits, shall be held to resolve the long run technique of the wrestle. If the necessity arises, a large agitation could be launched within the state alongside the traces of the kisan agitation of 2020-21.”
He stated that the state warehouses are filled with rice. Paddy is just not being lifted from the mandis within the state. Rajewal alleged that paddy is sown for different states. The Centre ought to assist the state, he stated within the assertion.
Tarsem Saini, the chief of millers’ affiliation, alleged that so far as PR 126 rice seeds are involved, the farmers are being taken for a journey with the connivance of the officers of the Mandi Board and procurement companies. “PR 126 (hybrid seeds) won’t be procured in any respect,” he stated within the assertion.
Arhtiya affiliation leaders Ravinder Singh Cheema and Vijay Kalra alleged that the federal government needs to complete off the arhtiyas.
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