Bathinda/Patiala: Punjab police On Wednesday, the A fasting farmer activist Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha head Sarvan Singh Pandher as well as other prominent agitators in Mohali when they returned after attending a meeting with a central delegation of the government in Chandigarh and also evicted the Protestant farmers of the Shambu and Khanauri borders.
The evictions began despite the guarantees of Punjab ministers on the AAP government that has no plans to alter agricultural protesters or the two protest sites in Shambu and Khanauri. For Wednesday night, the two sites had been authorized of protesters. More than 250 protesters were arrested from Khanauri, some from Mohali, and 110 from Shambu, said a senior Punjab police officer, added that they were transferred to a marriage room. Wednesday’s meeting was the seventh round of conversations between the two parties since February 2024 and the discussions centered on the main demand of a law that guarantees MSP for crops.
After Wednesday’s conversations, the central ministers have decided to appoint a joint secretary to commit to several interested parties to deepen the contentious issue of MSP. The next round of meetings is scheduled for May 4.
The police collected 150 with force in a matter of minutes, demand farmers
The joint secretary Purna Chand Kishan will get involved with agriculture experts and agricultural activists. Development occurs after farmers presented convincing data of accredited agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Crisil and RBI.
The data highlighted the financial implications to provide MSP. The farmers were heading to the Shambuhu border from Chandigarh, from where Dallewal and other agitators who accompanied him were heading to Khanauri. However, they were collected just after crossing Punjab, in the Jagatpura area of Mohali. Dallewal was arrested in his ambulance, and others with his vehicles after some resistance of farmers. Pandher was collected from his vehicle even though he tried to escape.
The farmers were stopping some kind of action given the heavy police deployment in both protest sites, but they were waiting for it in Shambu and Khanauri. Punjab police gathered a few hundred farmers at Khanauri’s interstate border on Wednesday night. The turbans of several farmers were thrown during the minor fights while the authorities put them on buses to clear the protest site.
BKU EKUA Sidhupur leader Kulwant Singh said that all belongings and tractors of tractors parked on the road were left behind since the police did not give them time, especially the advanced age farmers, to evict. BKU EKTA SIDHUPUR Farmer Deepu, which is close to Dallewal, said the police forcibly brought together more than 150 farmers in minutes. Sangur SSP Tartaj Singh Chahal said that the operation was carried out peacefully and that the police did not participate in any clash with farmers. However, farmers said the police used force to round them in Khanauri.