March 12, 2021
Day 107
Toll 288
#FarmersProtest
March Program
- Ongoing, Samyukt Kisan Morcha leaders are in Bengal to participate in ‘No Vote to BJP’ campaign. Kisan Yatras are being taken out in Bihar from March 11 to 15, to conclude on March 18 on the Kisan Kranti Diwas in the Vidhan Sabha March in Patna. Mahapanchayats have started in Eastern UP.
- March 12, SKM leaders to reach poll-bound states to campaign against BJP.
- March 15, Anti-Corporate Day and the Anti-Government Day. Protests will be held with trade unions at Railway stations against fuel hike and against privatisation.
- March 17, a joint convention will be organised with trade unions and other mass organisations for planning the Bharat Bandh on 26th March.
- March 19, the day of Muzara Lehar will be celebrated and protests will be held in mandis across the country under the FCI and Kheti Bachao program.
- March 23, martyrdom day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, at farmers’ protests in Delhi borders.
- March 26, on completion of 4 months of this movement, a complete Bharat bandh will be observed.
- March 28, Anti-Farmer Laws will be burnt in Holi Dahan across the country.
The farmers movement has been strong in all seasons. The movement, which started the last summer in Punjab, has kept itself alive in severe winter. There was huge rain at the Tikri border March 9. Although the government has not provided facilities to the protesters, the farmers have made full arrangements to deal with this crisis as well.
- adapted from SKM press release March 10.