Farmers back in Delhi as tag team for wrestlers

Jind: Top wrestlers’ protest has pulled the farmer unions of Punjab and Haryana back to Delhi where their yearlong siege had forced the central government to repeal the agri-marketing laws.
When the Punjab farmers had marched into Delhi first in 2020, then the farmers of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan had come to their support. Now when Haryana’s khaps and farmer unions need backing for their champion wrestlers, Punjab farmers repay the favour.
Agrarian states Haryana and Punjab, which had separated on November 1, 1966, re-bonded during farmers’ agitation. A decade-long dispute over SYL canal’s water couldn’t divide them. When a few BJP-supported outfits tried to evict farmers from Delhi’s borders, Haryana khaps gave these farmers food, shelter, and milk.
One of the tallest farmer unionists of Punjab, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, is in Delhi with the SKM and UP farmers, and the bid to project it as the agitation of just the Jats from one state has failed.
Jind farmer unionist Azad Palwan said: “Like the 2020 agitation became a movement despite the Khalistani label, the Jat tag won’t stick to the wrestlers’ agitation, for these players earned their medals for the country.”
Farmer unions and khaps on Wednesday marched from Rani Talab to the DC’s office in this city, holding placards, BKU flags, and Tricolour.