New Delhi: As over 200 farmer unions join Delhi Chalo protest, measures have been taken to not allow them to reach Delhi unlike in 2020.
Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh farmers take to the street — in 2024 — with more than 200 farmer unions heading to Delhi on Tuesday after the last round of talks between the farmer leaders and the Union ministers remained inconclusive on Monday night. Union minister Arjun Munda said on most of the issues raised by the farmers a consensus was reached and the government proposed to form a committee to address the rest. Contrarily, farmer leaders said there was no clarity of legal guarantee to the minimum support price.
The farmers will start their Delhi Chalo march at 10am but the Haryana government has put up a major fencing around the state to make sure the protesters can not enter Haryana from Punjab. The borders of Delhi have been fortified in an attempt to not allow the rerun of farmers’ 2020-21 protest.
Delhi Chalo was announced in 2023 demanding a legal guarantee to MSP for all crops, the implementation of Swaminathan Commission’s formula, full debt waiver for farmers, pension for farmers and labourers, withdrawal of cases against farmers during the 2020-21 protest.
Farmers protest 2.0 is being spearheaded by different unions as the landscape of the farmers’ unions has changed in the last few years.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have announced Delhi Chalo 2.0.
Bhartiya Kisan Union, Samyukt Kisan Morcha which led the 2020 protest of the farmers witnessed several factionalism. The two prominent leaders of the farmers’ 2020 protest were Rakesh Tikait and Gurnam Singh Charuni. But they are nowhere to be seen as the farmers take to the street four years later. Jagjit Singh Dallewal, leader of SKM (non-political) and Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of Sarwan Singh Pandher, are at the forefront now.
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