Parvesh Sharma
Tribune News Service
Sangrur, December 9
With Punjab farmers deciding to return home from the New Delhi protest, their focus is back on their old demands, including complete debt waiver by the state government. Some farm leaders have already started mobilisation for another indefinite protest against the state government for their long-pending demands.
“When the Centre can accept our demands then why can’t the state government? We have already conveyed to our leaders that they should not rest at their homes till the acceptance of our demands by the state too,” said Gurjant Singh, a farmer at the Sangrur Market Committee Office.
Congress failed to fulfil promise
Before the last Assembly elections, the Congress had promised a complete debt waiver to farmers but it failed to keep its word. —Mahinder Singh, Farmer
During an interaction with some farmers in the district, it came to light that their two main demands included complete debt waiver of farmers and labourers and jobs to the unemployed.
“Before the last Assembly elections, the Congress had promised complete debt waiver to farmers but didn’t fulfil it. We will remind it of the promises that it made to us,” said Mahinder Singh, a farmer who returned from New Delhi on December 4 after staying there for four months. BKU Ugrahan general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan said they had decided to call a state-level meeting of their organisations soon after coming back from Delhi.
From Centre, unions shift focus to state government
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