New Delhi: The Punjab government has decided to provide Rs 2 Lakh as compensation to 83 people arrested by Delhi police on the Republic of this year after the tractor lined up to protest the Central Agriculture Act.
The tractor rally on January 26 this year was to highlight the demands of the farmers’ union to revoke three Agri laws but was dissolved in anarchy on the streets of the national capital when thousands of protesters fly obstacles, fighting with police, reversing vehicles and raising religious flags from Iconic red fort fortress.
The events left many who were surprised and there was great anger after violence.
However, in Punjab bound-polling, which has become the most affected country by protests, agitation on agricultural laws has strong support especially in rural areas.
In a statement on social media, Chairman of the Minister of Punjab Chararjit Singh Channi said to support 83 people arrested on January 26, the government would provide monetary compensation for Rs 2 Lakh for each of them.
“Repeating my government’s stand to support the ongoing #FarmersProtest on three black farm laws, we have decided to provide compensation for RS 2 Lakh to 83 people arrested by Delhi police for rally tractors in the National Capital on January 26, 2021,” Chairman of the Punjab said on Twitter.
Significantly, this step also came when the body of Farmers Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has announced that to observe a year of movement of three central Agri laws, 500 farmers will participate in a peaceful tractor to parliament every day during the Witer session starting November 29 .
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have protested the law, who lived near the Supreme Court in January, at the Delhi border since November 26 last year.
SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions who led stir, announced a march tractor after holding a meeting here.
The leaders of farmers, who were present at the meeting, said that those who participated in the March tractor would sit wherever the police will stop them.
In a statement, Amalgam said that it would observe one year of movement on and after November 26 in a great way throughout India.
“SKM decided that from November 29 to the end of this parliamentary session, 500 selected farmer volunteers would move every day to parliament in a peaceful trolley tractor and with full discipline, to assert their rights to protest national capital,” the statement was said.
Meanwhile, in another movement, Channi also said Punjabi had made a mandatory subject in all schools in the state and they could be fined for not following him.
Channi made this announcement a day after the Punjab Punjab Learning of Punjabi and other nations (Amendment) Bill, 2021, aimed at enforcing Punjabi’s implementation as a mandatory subject for all students from class 1 to 10 in the state.
“To promote mother’s language, Punjabi has made a mandatory subject for all students from class I to X in Punjab.
The school was fined up to 2 lakh for violations,” Channi said in a tweet.
(With agency input)