Farmers, labourers take part in ‘Sankalp Rally’, to march to Delhi

A large number of farmers and labourers (mazdoors), under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), participated in ‘Sankalp Rally’ organised at Gurdwara Baba Sidhana, Sheron, here on Thursday. They vowed to participate in the march to Delhi being taken out on December 6.

Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra, state president of the KMSC, said farmers and mazdoors across the country were participating in the Delhi march on December 6 to express their resentment against the Union Government for not accepting the genuine demands of the agitating farmers and the working class.

Satnam Singh Pannun, Sawinder Singh Chutala, and Ranjit Kaur Kallha were among others who addressed the gathering on the occasion. They said they would take part in the Shambhu morcha on December 4 from where they would move to Delhi on December 6 to stress on their demands. The leaders demanded waiver of loan of farmers and labourers on the pattern of the corporate sector, Rs 10,000 old-age pension for farmers and labourers, cancellation of the amendment in the 2013 Land Act, nullification of the 2023 Electricity Act, provision of 14 daily need articles through the public distribution system, etc. They asked the government to book commission agents, rice millers, officials, MLAs and ministers involved in the forceful deduction of Rs 300 in the MSP for paddy.