The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Tuesday said 500 farmers will participate in a peaceful tractor march to Parliament every day during Winter Session starting November 29. Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been protesting against the laws, which were stayed by the Supreme Court in January, at the Delhi borders since November 26 last year.
The SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions leading the stir, announced the tractor march after it held a meeting. In a statement, the amalgam said that it will observe one year of the movement on and after November 26 in a “massive way” all over India.
“The SKM decided that from November 29 until the end of this Parliament session, 500 selected farmer volunteers will move every day to Parliament in tractor trollies peacefully and with full discipline, to assert their rights to protest in the national capital,” the statement said.
This will be done to “'increase the pressure” on the central government “to force it to concede the demands for which farmers across the country have launched a historic struggle”, it said.