TMC delegation meets protesting farmers at Punjab's Khanauri border
Jun 10, 2024
Sangrur (Haryana) [India], June 10 : A delegation of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs met protesting farmers at Punjab's Data Singhwala-Khanauri border on Monday.
"A 5-member delegation of our Rajya Sabha MPs visited the Khanauri border and interacted with protesting farmers. The farmers, enduring months of hardship, shared their harrowing experiences and highlighted how the Kisan-Birodhi Modi Govt. at the Centre has betrayed their aspirations and resorted to brutal repression," the TMC said in a post on 'X'.
"Our women MPs stood in full solidarity with the women farmers, reaffirming our support for their cause against this oppressive regime," the TMC added.
The five-member TMC delegation included Sagarika Ghosh, Derek O'Brien, Saket Gokhale, among others.
The protesting farmers said that they will be sending their 'demand chart' to the newly-formed NDA government.
Earlier in March, the general secretary of the Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher, said that the decision to March towards Delhi has not changed.
The farmer leader said that the groups of farmers will remain at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders till the government opens the roads to Delhi.
"The farmers from Punjab and Haryana will remain here (Khanauri and Shambhu border), we will not move forward without our tractors and trolleys. We have not changed our decision to march towards Delhi, we will wait until the government reopens the roads," Pandher said while speaking to ANI.
He said that the farmers from other states have been asked to join the protests and they will be coming by train or any other means.
"We have asked farmers from other states to march towards Delhi using railways, buses, or any other vehicle on March 6," the farmer leader said.
He further asserted that the protests will continue peacefully continue at the borders.
