Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, co-founder of Sikhs For Justice, a terrorist group banned by India. (Image/PTI)
Union Ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal, and Nityanand Rai will meet with farmer leaders in Chandigarh for the fourth round of discussions to resolve the ongoing farmers’ protest
In an attempt to instigate agitating farmers against the government ahead of the scheduled talks between the two parties on Sunday evening, Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has released a video offering them weapons to attack police officials in Haryana and Punjab.
In the latest video, the founder of the banned United States-based outfit, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), urged the farmers agitating at the Shambhu and Khanauri points along Punjab’s border with Haryana to attack police officials using arms available at the Kartarpur border and create pressure on the Centre to fulfil their demands.
He said, “Arm yourself to fight Indian bullets. Weapons are available at the Kartarpur border near Pakistan.”
According to top intelligence sources, it is an attempt to provoke innocent farmers. Official sources said, “Farmers are within their legitimate right to protest. None of the farmers will listen to SFJ. The Centre is committed to solving all farmers’ problems and talks are on.”
Farmer from Punjab, Haryana, and other parts of North India continued their protests on Sunday as their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, entered Day 6. The agitating farmers have sought an ordinance on giving a legal guarantee to Minimum Support Price (MSP), one of their key demands, ahead of their fourth round of discussions with the Centre on Sunday.
Union Ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal, and Nityanand Rai will meet with farmer leaders in Chandigarh for the fourth round of discussions to resolve the ongoing farmers’ protest.
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on February 13 morning began their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to press for their demands, amid heavy barricading at Haryana-Punjab border and entry points into the National Capital. However, most of them were stopped by security personnel at Shambhu and Khanauri points on Punjab’s border with Haryana. The protesters have stayed put at the two border points since then.
Besides a legal guarantee of MSP, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.