Sitting along with farmers at the Shambhu border on Wednesday, Sarwan Singh Pandher, General Secretary of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said both forums — SKM and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee — have decided that the Dilli Chalo march will be put on hold for the next two days.
“We will deliberate on the whole situation including what happened at the Khanauri border, how the government is committing atrocities and how we have to frame our policy and only then will the next course of action will be decided,” he added.
Pandher said the decision will be announced by Friday evening. “This march will continue and the Modi government should note that it will not fizzle out. The government is trying to penetrate people in the march to create disturbances. We have caught 4-5 government employees who tried to instigate our youth,” he added.
Pandher said that besides Shubh Karan Singh who was killed along the border between Punjab and Haryana, three others were seriously injured and many are missing. He said paramilitary forces entered Punjab territory at the Khanauri border, damaged more than 25 tractor-trolleys and also beat up an old farmer from Haryana.
Trade unions condemned the killing of the farmer and injuries to others, saying they would observe February 23 as a black day all over the country.
