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Farmers to march towards Punjab Vidhan Sabha today
The farmers began a five-day protest on September 1 to press for their demands, including the implementation of an agriculture policy by the Punjab government.
Farmers under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) announced on Sunday to march towards the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Monday and hand over a memorandum of their demands to chief minister Bhagwant Mann and opposition leaders.
A three-day session of the state assembly will begin on Monday.
The farmers began a five-day protest on Sunday to press for their demands, including the implementation of an agriculture policy by the Punjab government. They arrived from various parts of Punjab in buses, tractor-trailers and their personal vehicles and converged on the Dussehra ground in Chandigarh’s Sector 34 to take part in the sit-in.
The administration allotted the ground for the protest.
The farmers are protesting against alleged delays in the implementation of an agriculture policy, claiming that the Punjab government had not taken any meaningful step on it.
The AAP government assumed power two-and-a-half-years ago but the promised agriculture policy is yet to be implemented, they alleged.
The farmers’ other demands include promotion of chemical-free crops, compensation to the families of farmers who committed suicide, and curbing the drugs problem in the state, Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union general secretary Lachhman Singh Sewewala said.
BKU (Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said the farmers would march towards the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Monday and hand over a memorandum of their demands to the chief minister and opposition leaders.
