Protesting Punjab farmers to march towards Delhi on Dec. 6
Deccan ChronicleChandigarh: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha on Monday announced that farmers will march towards Delhi on December 6 to press the Centre to accept their various demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP for crops.The decision was taken at a meeting of farmer leaders here. Addressing the media here, KMM leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said after a long wait, they have decided to head towards Delhi. Tejveer Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union said they have been camping at the two border points for 280 days and the Centre has not held any talks with them since February 18. Besides a legal guarantee of minimum support price for crops, the farmers are demanding a farm debt waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and "justice" for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.