COURTESY HT JAN 16

BKU FORMULA : 11 FARMERS, ONE TRACTOR PER VILLAGE FOR RALLY
MEERUT : At least one tractor and 11 farmers from every village will join a tractor parade to Delhi in support of those protesting against three contentious agriculture reform laws, according to a formula that Bharatiya Kisan Union’s Bijnor district unit has evolved.

Under this plan, each group of 11 farmers with one tractor will be replaced with the same number of farmers and tractors every 10 days to keep the chain of support and the supply of essential commodities going for the protesters at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.

BKU’s district president Digambar Singh said the formula was worked out and unanimously approved at a meeting of the district unit.

Singh also said farmers were visiting Ghazipur on the Delhi-UP border in tractors and other vehicles to support the protesters and supply essential commodities to them. Singh said Bijnor district had about 3,000 villages and people were enthusiastically supporting and participating in the farmers’ movement since the beginning.

“We have carried out an exercise to contact people in 2,000 villages and will approach the remaining villages before January 22,” said Singh. HTC