Farmer leader criticises AAP government; SKM remembers ‘Black Friday’ in response to young tragedy

Farmers will host a Mahapanchayat in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on March 14 and conduct tractor marches on roads on February 26, according to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) is expected to join the agitation by observing a ‘Black Friday’ today. The farmers’ protest appears to have been sparked by the murder of a young farmer in encounters with security personnel along the interstate boundary of Punjab and Haryana.

Rakesh Tikait, leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), announced that the SKM will also conduct a tractor march along highways in the direction of the nation’s capital. This new agitation has not included the alliance of more than forty Indian farmers’ unions, which came together in 2020 to plan satyagragh against the three farm statutes that have since been abolished.

“The Punjabi government was being consulted over Shubhkaran Singh’s passing. All of our requests were granted, including the creation of a Board to oversee Shubhkaran Singh’s postmortem and its videography, the filing of a case under Section 302 (murder) against the assailants, and Shubhkaran Singh’s status as a “martyr” by the Punjab government. The Punjabi government has been silent for over 14 hours, according to the farmer leader.