Nearly 40,000 women on way to Delhi from Punjab, Haryana to lead farm protest on Women’s Day
Women protesters from parts of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh left for Delhi on Sunday to congregate at protest sites on Delhi borders to mark International Women’s Day on Monday.
Women farmers travel in a tractor to reach Delhi, ahead of their planned Women’s Day celebration at the protest sites on the outskirts of the national capital. (Photo: PTI)
You have seen them in the fields and cooking food for protesters at various protest sites in Delhi and elsewhere, now the women protesters of the farmers’ movement are on their way to the national capital for a show of strength on International Women’s Day on Monday.
Thousands of women protesters, some of them driving the tractors themselves, headed for Delhi from various districts of Punjab and Haryana to reach the national capital for a congregation at Delhi border protest sites to mark international women’s Day on Monday.
These women protesters will take the centre stage on international women’s Day at the protest sites. The farmer leaders said that elaborate arrangements have been made to celebrate International women’s Day to acknowledge the role of women in agriculture and life.
“Sanyukt Kisan Morcha has always given importance to the power of the women farmers during the agitation. Women will lead protests at all the sites — be it the toll barriers or the permanent protest sites. This is their day,” says Yogendra Yadav, president, Swaraj India.
Farmer unions have claimed that nearly 40,000 women from various parts of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh will congregate at Delhi protest sites including Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders.lWomen farmers travel in a tractor to reach Delhi, ahead of their planned Women’s Day celebration at the protest sites on the outskirts of the national capital. (Photo: PTI)
Although every farmer union has its women wing, Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) has the largest one.
Farmer union leaders said that these women will celebrate international women’s Day on Monday and then come back to look after the children, fields and senior family members back home.
“Bhartiya Kisan Union [Ugrahan] has arranged 500 buses, 600 minibuses,115 trucks besides 200 small vehicles to carry the women protesters. These vehicles have left for Delhi. These women protesters will celebrate International women’s Day and go back [to their towns] the next day,” general secretary BKU (Ugrahan) Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said.
