Thousands of farmers converged at the grain market in Jodhan near Ludhiana in protest against the land pooling policy on a call given by the Bharti Kisan Union (BKU-Sidhupur), a farmers’ union led by Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who had gone on hunger strike four months ago in protest against the delay on the part of the Central government in announcing MSP for various crops.
About 1,000 police personnel were deployed around the Jodhan grain market to prevent any untoward incident during the protest, which was portrayed as farmers’ “show of strength against the controversial policy. Various farmer leaders from not only Punjab but also from Karnataka, Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra joined the protest.
Addressing the gathering, Dallewal cautioned the government against what he termed as its “sinister designs” to destroy the existence of villages. He said farmers would not allow the government to snatch even an inch of Punjab’s fertile land under the policy. With Jodhan emerging as the epicentre of the protest against the land pooling policy, all roads leading to the grain market were choked with vehicles carrying protesters from across the state.
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