Patiala. Farmers who had gathered at Shambhu Border for 10 days to march towards Delhi on behalf of Sidhupur faction of United Kisan Morcha in Patiala, Punjab, have now started returning. The main reason for this is the death of Shubhakaran of Bathinda in Khanuri of Sangrur district on Wednesday and the formation of two groups due to the postponement of the Delhi march by farmer organizations for two days. Anger among the youth has increased due to repeated postponement of Delhi March.
Due to this, the process of return of farmers from Shambhu border started from Wednesday night itself and by today afternoon, 25 percent of the farmers had returned to their homes. At the same time, the atmosphere remained calm in Khannuri of Sangrur on Thursday and the crowd was less visible here too. Here the farmers have installed trolleys in the middle of the road even before the Haryana border, so that no farmer can go towards the Haryana border. On the other hand, the post mortem of Shubhakaran could not be done even on Thursday.
Said, Shubhakaran should get the status of martyr
Farmer leaders demand that they will not allow the post-mortem to be conducted until Shubhakaran is given the status of martyr and his family is not given the same facilities as the victim's family. Sarwan Singh Pandher and other leaders, who came to meet farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal admitted in Rajindra Hospital, said that tear gas shells have been fired from drones by Haryana Police on the Punjab border, if the Punjab government had already taken strict action on these matters. Has been done. Action must have been taken. .Khanuri border incidents did not occur. He said that the government should make its position clear as to which side it is on.
Along with this, doctors of Rajindra Hospital said that the condition of farmer leader Dallewal, who was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday, is stable, there is no fracture in his body. Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Kadian) has closed the national highway across the state from 12 noon to 2 am today in protest against the death of a young farmer in Khanuri.
Delhi march postponed due to strictness of Haryana Police
Let us tell you that Sidhupur Group had announced to march towards Delhi on 13 February. Farmers have been busy in Shambhu of Patiala district, Khanauri of Sangrur and Dabwali of Bathinda since February 13. Farmers are not entering Haryana due to the fortification of Haryana Police. Whenever farmers try to enter Haryana border, Haryana Police fires tear gas shells to disperse the protesters.
On Wednesday also the farmers had announced to march towards Delhi at 11 am. After this, when a large number of farmers started moving towards the Haryana border, the police dispersed them by firing tear gas shells. Meanwhile, a young farmer Shubhakaran Singh died under suspicious circumstances in Khanuri and the farmers postponed their Delhi march till Friday evening.
Reduction in both crowd and heavy machinery