Kisan andolan: On March 19, demonstrations are being held across the country in support of forcibly removed farmers from Shambhu and Khanouri border. Farmer leaders announced the siege of DC offices at the district level on Friday (March 28), while on 31 March, there will be a demonstration outside the houses of the ministers of the Punjab government.

On Thursday (March 27), the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Morcha Punjab held a press conference at the Press Club in Amritsar and condemned the police action and shared the strategy of the upcoming movement. Farmer leaders called the arrest of big farmer leaders unfortunate on behalf of the police and asked to intensify the movement.

Farmers’ goods missing during police action

Farmer leaders allege that when the police removed the farmers from the border, the goods worth crores of rupees, tractor-trolleys and other essential items were confiscated, which have not been detected so far. He demanded the Punjab government to compensate for the loss and appealed to release all the detained farmers immediately.

The movement will continue till the demands are met – farmer leader

The chairman of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Ranjit Singh Kalerbala said that the movement will continue till his demands are met. He announced to demonstrate on DC offices on Friday (March 28) and outside the houses of ministers on 31 March. He warned that if the government ignored the demands, it will have a huge political impact.

Demand for better daily wage and legal security in favor of laborers

Farmer leaders claimed that their agitation is completely constitutional and if it was illegal, why did the government compensation to the injured farmers in the movement? He asked the workers to continue the struggle till the completion of 12 major demands including better daily wage and legal security. He appealed to the citizens to support and demanded an immediate solution from the Punjab government.

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has reacted to the removal of farmers from Shambhu border and Khanouri border. He said that the movement of the people of Pambaz was disrupted for one year. Even on this, farmer brothers should think. The AAP MP said that we do not have any wrong feeling towards them. He said this in a conversation with news agency PTI.

We were with farmers, and will remain- Sanjay Singh

AAP MP Sanjay Singh said, “I am talking positively. We respect the farmer brothers. We were with the farmers, and will remain.” Let us know that on March 19, the Punjab Police took the farmer leaders into custody and removed their tents on the Shambhu border through bulldozers. Traffic was started on the Shambhu-Ambala highway on Thursday (20 March). Traffic started here after about a year. AAP government came under target on this action of Punjab Police.

VIDEO | On Punjab Police’s Crackdown on Farmers, AAP MP Sanjay Singh (@Sanjayazadsln) Says, “Commuters in Punjab was facing issues for the past one year, the farmers should also think about this. We respect the Farmers, Thought and We will continue to stand with them.”

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– Press Trust of India (@Pti_News) March 21, 2025

Punjab government farmers called for talks

Meanwhile, the Punjab government has called a meeting to talk with the farmers at four in the evening on Friday (March 21). This meeting is to be held at Punjab Bhawan in Chandigarh. This meeting has been called after the action of Punjab Police on Shambhu and Khanouri border.

Significantly, farmers were demonstrating on Khanauri and Shambhu border from February 13 last year to demand a legal guarantee of MSP. On the action of the Punjab Police, the opposition Congress alleged that the state government ‘cheated’ the farmers.

At the same time, Punjab Minister Harpal Singh Cheema had said that the demand of farmers is from the central government. He had said that when three agricultural laws were brought by the central government, we were standing with the farmers.

Farmers protest timeline: The meeting between farmer leaders and the central government on Wednesday (March 19) also turned out to be inconclusive. The next meeting is to be held on 4 May. Till then the farmer leaders have said to continue the movement. Meanwhile, barricading on Shambhu and Khanouri border of Punjab-Haryana is being removed. With this, after 13 months, the route with Delhi-Jammu-Amritsar highway will be opened. On the other hand, the Punjab Police started the work of removing the farmers present on this border late Wednesday evening. About 200 farmers protesting were also detained. The Punjab Police has broken the sheds made by the farmers from the bulldozer here.

On Wednesday, the central delegation spoke to the farmer leaders. The delegation included Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Minister of Consumer Affairs Prahlad Joshi and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. Shivraj Singh Chauhan has described this conversation as a large extent meaningful and has hoped to resolve the matter further. Now it will be interesting to see what results in the next meeting on 4 May. Before this, know what happened in the peasant movement in the last 13 months …

13 February 2024: Farmers left for Delhi, police stopped by barricading on Shambhu and Khanori border.

21 February 2024: There was a confrontation in police and peasants, Shubhakaran of Bathinda died, many farmers were arrested.

17 April 2024: The farmers blocked the railway track demanding the release of their colleagues. The farmers sat on the track itself.

2 September 2024: The Supreme Court formed a committee to open the Shambhu border.

18 November 2024: The farmers announced the Delhi Cooch on 6 December.

26 November 2024: Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallawal was detained by the Punjab Police. Dallewal started a fast unto death.

6 December 2024: Tried to travel to Delhi from Shambhu border. Haryana Police drove away tear gas.

8 December 2024: The farmers tried to travel to Delhi again. Haryana Police did not give entry, the farmers returned.

14 December 2024: The farmers tried to march Delhi for the fourth time. This time too, the march had to be postponed after the Haryana Police stopped.

30 December 2024: Punjab remained closed in support of farmers. Buses and trains were not allowed to run.

4 January 2025: Farmer Mahapanchayat took place on Khanori border. Dallewal was brought on a stretcher. He addressed the farmers for 9 minutes.

9 January 2025: During the mahapanchayat in Moga, the United Kisan Morcha decided to support the movement.

What happened so far in 6 meetings of central and farmers?

8 February 2024: Some demands were agreed, but the farmers’ organizations were adamant on many other demands including making MSP legal guarantee law on crops.

12 February 2024: In Chandigarh, farmers had a 5 -hour meeting with Union ministers. It was agreed to withdraw all the cases registered on farmers and cancel the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020.

15 February 2024: The farmers objected to the use of force done by the Haryana Police. The meeting lasted till one o’clock in the night.

18 February 2024: Apart from paddy, wheat, the central government proposed to give MSP on lentils, mustard, maize and cotton crops. But the rest of the crops did not agree.

14 February 2025: Union Minister Prahlad Joshi was present along with 28 farmer leaders in the meeting. The meeting was inconclusive.

19 March 2025: The protest of the farmers will continue to protest once again with the Center, the next meeting will be held on May 4

What is the demands of farmers?

• MSP guaranteed for all 23 crops
• Full debt of farmers should be forgiven
• Pension for farmers and laborers working in farm
• Electricity amendment bill should be canceled
• Compensation and accused should be punished in Lakhimpur Kheri case
• Cases registered against farmers in the movement should be returned
• Compensation to the family of farmers killed in the movement

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