Advance Centre’s meeting with farmers, hold it in Delhi: KMM coordinator Sarwan Singh Pandher

He added, “I don’t bargain this statement of Model Code of Conduct successful spot successful Delhi due to the fact that if the 8th Pay Commission’s announcements tin beryllium done during exemplary code, wherefore can’t a gathering beryllium held… The elections are for Delhi… Hence the exemplary codification is simply a vague crushed to hold the gathering inordinately.”

Pandher besides appealed to SKM (non-political) and Bharatiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) leaders to impulse Dallewal to interruption his accelerated truthful helium tin beryllium successful bully wellness for the meeting.

“Regarding our program to nonstop different jatha of 101 farmers towards Shambhu borderline connected January 22, we person postponed it to January 26. We volition beryllium doing a tractor rally connected January 26 and volition instrumentality a telephone aboriginal astir the jatha. Our struggle, however, volition proceed till the demands are met,” helium said.

Earlier, Pandher had alleged that a fewer cardinal authorities officers were trying to “play a divide-and-rule game” betwixt husbandman unions and had vowed not to fto it happen.

Abhimanyu Kohar, elder person of SKM non-political, said, “We had requested the squad connected Saturday itself to prepone the gathering but owed to assorted engagements of officers, February 14 was finalised. Till January 26, officials are engaged with Republic Day solemnisation events. On Saturday evening, each leaders of KMM and SKM non-political were successful the gathering to sermon these issues.”

Sources revealed that national leaders had differences of sentiment aft Dallewal, connected Saturday, accepted the Centre’s connection for a gathering connected February 14. Reportedly, galore KMM national leaders astatine Shambhu borderline were unaware of this improvement and were not taken into assurance earlier accepting the missive for the gathering astatine Khanauri border.

General caput of BKU (Sidhupur) Kaka Singh Kotra was besides of the sentiment that the gathering should instrumentality spot successful Delhi. Both Pandher and Kotra judge that the protestation involves the country’s conflict truthful the gathering should hap successful the nationalist capital.

The KMM and SKM (non-political) person been protesting astatine Shambhu and Khanauri borders since February 13, 2024 implicit 12 demands including a ineligible warrant for minimum enactment price (MSP) for each crops.

Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian, too, favoured advancing the meeting. Speaking to The Indian Express connected Sunday, helium said, “February 14 is excessively far… Talks tin resume wrong this week… They tin hold the announcements and I don’t deliberation that 1 circular of talks tin bring retired the desired results. I entreaty to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to beforehand the gathering and judge each the demands of farmers.”