Keypoints:
- Go to protests or pay Rs.1,500 fine. The ones not paying fine will be boycotted : Gram Panchayat Sarpanch.
- Virk Khurd gram panchayat in Bathinda decides to send at least one member of each family to farmers’ protest at Delhi borders for a week
- On Friday, Yogendra Yadav had urged farmers to send one family member to Delhi borders
Punjab’s Bhatinda village has asked everyone to send atleast one member of the family to the farmers protest. The ones who won’t go for the protests will have to pay Rs.1,500 fine or else will be boycotted.
At least one member of each family will be participating in farmers’ protest at Delhi borders for a week, said Sarpanch Manjit Kaur of Virk Khurd gram panchayat in Bathinda.
“Those who won’t go to protest will be fined Rs 1,500 and those not paying fine will be boycotted,” she added. This was followed when the Swaraj India Chief Yogendra Yadav urged all the farmers across India to send one member of their family at Delhi borders to participate in the protests.
He further said that ‘four drops’ of Rakesh Tikait’s tears washed the bad name that was given to the farmers.”Modi ji and Yogi ji and all others must listen carefully, farmers will not go back from this movement humiliated and defamed,” said Yadav.
The move comes as an attempt to increase numbers at the encampments erected by protesting farmers at Delhi’s borders and build pressure for the repeal of the three laws – a demand in which the protesters have remained steadfast. Announcements about the panchayats’ resolutions are being made using gurudwara loudspeakers in the concerned villages.Families whose male members are physically incapacitated or those who are underprivileged have been spared of the order.
In Haryana, Khap Panchayats held meetings and threw their weight behind the agitating farmers, a farmer leader of BKU (Chaduni) said on Friday. He said that several villages have decided to send one or two tractor-trolleys to join the protesters.
On Friday, the Shiromani Akali Dal also called upon its party cadre to “rush” to the protest sites n large numbers to give a further boost to the ongoing agitation.
