On Monday, March 8, thousand of women protestors of the farmer’s movement will join the ongoing protests at Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri borders on International Women’s Day. They will be joined by students and activists.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said that farmer unions have claimed that around 40,000 women from various parts of Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh will be part of a congregation at the protest sites.
B K U (Ugrahan), which has the largest women wing, has arranged 500 buses, 600 minibusses, 115 trucks besides 200 small vehicles to ferry women protestors, he said.
Senior farmer leader and member of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, Kavita Kurugranthy told that “ to celebrate women’s day, the stage will be managed by women, and the speakers too will be women. And there will be a small march at the Singhu border, the details for which will be shared later. We are expecting more women to join at different protest sites”.
Farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh, have been protesting at Delhi’s border points for more than 100 days. Agitating farmers have demanded a full repeal of the three contentious farm laws and a legal guarantee on the minimum support price or MSP for their crops.