Besides, some 700 farmers also give thikri pehra (night vigil) and have set up three checkpoints to monitor and control access to the area. Anti-fog torches were given to volunteers to keep an eye around the pandal where Dallewal was fasting.Meanwhile, three women activists of farmer organisation, BKU Ekta Ugrahan, were killed and 36 others sustained injuries when the bus they were travelling to SKM Mahapanchayat in Tohana in Haryana met with an accident at Barnala in Punjab. Dallewal also expressed condolences for the farmers who died in the accident.The three deceased women were identified as Sarbjit Kaur (55), Balbir Kaur (67) and Jabir Kaur, all residents of Kotha Guru village in Bathinda. The injured were rushed to Civil Hospital at Barnala, for treatment, from where about a dozen injured persons were discharged after giving treatment.More than 50 farmers were travelling on the bus.In another accident, five activists of BKU (Sidhupur) were injuried when their bus met with an accident near Barnala as farmers were going from Dallewala village to Khanauri to participate in the Kisan Mahapanchayat.Farmer leader Kaka Singh Kotda said that a parallel protest at Tohana in Haryana by the SKM would have no impact on their protest.After attending the kisan maha panchayat in Tohana, BKU national spokesperson Rakesh Tikai said that the next farmers’ agitation will be on the KMP Expressway to block Delhi as a broad outline on this has been prepared for that.Besides a legally guaranteed MSP, the farmers have been demanding a farm loan waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in the electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and justice for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.
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