Women Farmers Take Centrestage at Farmers’ Protest Sites on Women’s Day – News18

On the event of Worldwide Ladies’s Day on Friday, ladies farmers took centrestage on the farmers’ ongoing protest websites at Shambhu and Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border. The ladies farmers mentioned the continuing stir will proceed until the time Centre doesn’t settle for the calls for of the farmers.

Because the stir at Shambhu and Khanauri protest websites entered its twenty fifth day, many ladies farmers reached there. A mahila panchayat was additionally organised during which quite a few ladies participated. Senior farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher, who’s amongst these spearheading the continuing stir, had earlier mentioned ladies farmers will take centrestage on worldwide ladies’s day.

”Our theme shall be what needs to be the position of rural ladies in profitable this morcha,” he mentioned. Ladies farmer leaders Sukhwinder Kaur, Samita Kaur Mangat and Gurpreet Kaur mentioned on the event that 1000’s of girls farmers from Punjab and Haryana participated on the protest websites. They thanked the ladies for coming to the protest websites and lengthening assist to the continuing protest in assist of varied calls for of farmers.

Many ladies farmers mentioned the stir will proceed until the Centre provides a authorized assure of minimal assist value (MSP) for crops. Some additionally raised slogans in assist of the farmers’ calls for. They mentioned ladies farmers have made a particular contribution within the growth of the nation, be it inexperienced revolution or white revolution.

Ladies farmer leaders mentioned they can even take part within the ’Rail Roko’ protest on March 10. Historical past is witness that the ladies of the nation have all the time contributed shoulder-to-shoulder with the lads within the growth and welfare of the nation, they mentioned.

Farmer leaders additionally mentioned ladies have performed a significant position in a number of actions prior to now. Farmer leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal had on Sunday given a name to the farmers throughout the nation to achieve Delhi on March 6 for a protest whereas they’d additionally given a four-hour ’Rail Roko’ countrywide name for March 10 in assist of their numerous calls for.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) are spearheading the ’Delhi Chalo’ march by farmers to press the federal government to just accept their calls for which incorporates that the Centre ought to give a authorized assure of MSP for crops. The protesting farmers have been staying put on the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors between Punjab and Haryana after their ’Delhi Chalo’ march was stopped by the safety forces.

They started their march on February 13 however have been stopped by the safety forces, which led to clashes on the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors on Haryana-Punjab border.

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