21-day ‘Kisan Mazdoor Jagriti March’ from today

MEERUT : To infuse fresh vigour into their stir and make people aware about the disadvantages of the three newly enacted farm laws, farmers will take out a 21-day ‘ Kisan Mazdoor Jariti March’ from Ramraj town of Myzaffarnagar from Saturday.

The march will conclude at Gazipur border in Delhi on March 27 after covering a distance of over 1,700 km in western UP and Uttarakhand. The march will be coordinated by farmers Jasbeer Singh Virk and Tejinder Singh and its preparation was in the final stages on Friday. Virk shared that the farmers’ movement had competed 100 days and it had been decided to make people aware about disadvantages of the farm laws and how they would adversely affect life.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait was invited to flag off the march but he had prior commitment for a panchayat. Virk said that now farmers would flag off the march on his behalf from Ramraj Mandi on Saturday morning. He said that 40 to 50 tractors would participate in the march to reach at its first half in Najibabad on Saturday night. The tractors accompanying the march from Ramraj would return and new tractors would join it through Afzalgarh, Kashipur, Rudrapur, Sitarganj ( Uttarakhand), Amariya in Pilibhit, Manjhola, Pilibhit, Madho Tanda, Puranpur, Lakhimpur, Sitapur, Punwaya, Banthra, Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Hapur and conclude at Gazipur on March 27.

Virk said that handbills regarding disadvantages of the farm laws and how the government was spreading confusion about MSP and other issues related to farmers and farming had been printed and would be distributed among farmers and villagers throughout the march which would cover over 1700 kms in 21 days. HTC