Khanauri: It has been more than a year since the Kisan Andolan 2.0 started on the Shambhu and Khanauri border of Punjab-Haryana. While the hunger strike of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has entered the 95th day. However, his health has been bad for the last four days. He is shivering a lot.
A team of doctors is monitoring his health. However, he has clearly refused to be admitted to the hospital. At the same time, farmer leaders have appealed to the people to reach the front to give strength to the movement. Preparations are underway for the Kisan Mahapanchayat on March 8.
Unity meeting remained inconclusive
The six-hour meeting of SKM leaders of the United Kisan Morcha with the leaders of Shambhu and Khanauri Morcha for unity remained inconclusive. After the meeting, SKM leaders said that many issues were discussed in the meeting, whatever things, facts and objections came out in the meeting. Now the three fronts will discuss them in their respective organizations. After this, the next date of the meeting will be decided and steps will be taken towards unity. However, the date of the meeting has not been decided.
SKM’s senior farmer leader Joginder Singh Ugrahan had a long discussion today about unity. There are still many things regarding complete unity, which need to be discussed. Common minimum unity is possible. We will try in that direction. Then we will move towards a bigger unity.
Meeting with the central government on 19 March
The 7th round of meeting between the farmers and the central government will be held in Chandigarh on March 19. On February 22, a meeting was held with the protesting farmers in Chandigarh under the leadership of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. This meeting was held in a very good atmosphere. During this time, facts and figures strengthening the demand for MSP were presented to the central government by the farmers. After this, the central government asked the farmers to hand over those figures to them, so that the talks could be taken forward after taking opinion from their experts.