Nuh Kisan Mahapanchayat: SKM sounds call to ‘choke Delhi’ from south Haryana
India Today
At the Kisan Mahapanchayat organised by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha in Haryana's Nuh, farmer leaders appealed to farmers to stay prepared to "choke Delhi" from yet another direction.
It's roughly 11 in the morning. A tau -- with a white turban and beard -- was sitting on a chaarpai kept on the periphery of the Anaj Mandi (grain market) in Haryana's Nuh. On our right was the stage, where the top leadership of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) was gearing up to address the Kisan Mahapanchayat. "I have come from a nearby village in Nuh. They have not done proper campaigning yet. Many in our villages are not even aware that a Kisan Mahapanchayat is being organised in the Anaj Mandi," the septuagenarian told India Today while explaining the possible reason for the dismal headcount at the spot where the Kisan Mahapanchayat was to begin in an hour or two.
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