Farmer union leader threatens to march towards Parliament in mid-May over non-fulfilment of demands
New Delhi: Lakhs of farmers, protesting against the three farm laws passed by the union government last year, will march towards the Parliament on foot sometime in the middle of the month of May, said All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) General Secretary Hannan Mollah on Thursday.
Mollah told ANI that the march is being organized because "the government is not listening to the voices of the farmers". "Modi Government and Parliament are not listening to the farmers then it is our right to go in front of Parliament and raise our demand and we will decide sometime between the middle in the month of May. Thousands of farmers will come to the border first, then march to Delhi on foot," he said.
The AIKS General Secretary said that the farmers' march will be peaceful and they will head for the Parliament to express their "grief and pain before countrymen". He added that the exact date of the march has not been decided yet. "We have decided to organize the program because the movement of farmers has become longer than four months.
When the movement has become longer, the protests have to be organized continuously and therefore we have announced that we will encircle Food Corporation of India's offices on April 5 because the government is planning to abolish the public distribution system," said Mollah. He said his organization will "siege Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) outer ring road for 24 hours" on April 10, and will organize nationwide protests on Baisakhi and Mayday to raise their demands. Protestors broke barricades to enter Delhi and indulged in vandalism across several parts of the national capital during their tractor rally organized to protest against the Centre's three new farm laws on Republic day. Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been protesting on three borders of Delhi -- Tikri, Singhu, and Ghazipur -- since November last year demanding repeal of the three contentious farm laws enacted last year.
