Farmers organizations on Friday staged protests in several parts of Haryana on the call of the United Kisan Morcha (SKM). Agnipath Central government scheme. After the protest, the farmer leaders also submitted a memorandum to the local administrative officials. Apart from farmers, social workers, youth and students also participated in this protest.
In a protest organized in Jind, the agitators said that they had earlier started an movement to save the crop (product), but now they were fighting to save the nose (progeny).
Urging the youth to keep the movement non-violent, he said that they want a movement on the lines of the historic farmers’ movement, which continued for more than a year.
In Dadri, youths led by local Khap leaders participated in the protests. Farmers and employees in Jhajjar staged a sit-in to express their anger against the scheme.
In Karnal, the protesters first gathered at a dharamsala and then reached the mini secretariat raising slogans against the plan. On this occasion, BKU leader Ratan Mann said that the government should recruit youth on the basis of the previous pattern of recruitment in the army.
The SKM termed the plan as “anti-military, anti-farmer and anti-national”.