Women farmers, labourers from Punjab to hold ‘aurat march’ in support of protesting wrestlers

Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan, general secretary of BKU Ekta Ugrahan, said thousands of women farmers and labourers would participate in the march. “Despite the FIR, Brij Bhushan has not been arrested till now. We will be supporting wrestlers till justice is not served. We will keep protesting against the high-handedness of the BJP government,” said Kokri Kalan.

Meanwhile, hundreds of women farm labourers from Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) who had left for Delhi from Amritsar to participate in the wrestlers’ march, have been stopped by the police outside the Manji Sahib gurudwara in Ambala of Haryana. “Barricades and heavy police force have been deployed outside the gurdwara. We are now sitting on the road in protest,” said Sarwan Singh Pandher, a senior farm leader of the KMSC.

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Farm activists from Krantikari Kisan Union Punjab were also stopped at Haryana border from entering Delhi.

Ahead of a proposed mahapanchayat in support of the protesting wrestlers outside the new Parliament building in Delhi Sunday, several farmer leaders, including the BKU’s Gurnam Singh Chaduni, have been detained inside their homes in Haryana.