Pandher who was at the Shambhu border said, “We have extended our hands to those brothers who could not participate in the Delhi andolan-2 (Delhi Chalo march). We asked them to forget whatever differences the unions have in the interests of farmers and labourers. We have written a letter to our brothers. We expect a positive message from them (SKM).”In the letter, Pandher said they had made an attempt for unity before the start of the ongoing agitation but the efforts could not be successful then because of various reasons.Meanwhile, Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan said they would hold a dharna outside the district headquarters on December 23 in protest against the tear gas shelling and use of water cannons against farmers protesting at the Shambhu border.Besides a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops, the farmers are demanding a debt 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 are also part of their demands.
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