The Nationalist Parivartan Manch has been demanding a way out for about two months from the problems caused by the farmers’ movement which has been going on for about 7 months. In this regard, a Mahapanchayat was organized under the chairmanship of Hemant Nandal in Sersa village near the Singhu border. Representatives of about 24 villages of Sonipat, 15 villages of Delhi, and about 700 affected people from different nearby areas gathered in the Mahapanchayat. The Mahapanchayat has also got moral support from the Tikri border. The Mahapanchayat is being held on only three issues, in which the demand for the opening of GT Road from the main one side was made to the agitators, not to barricade by the agitators and to stop the violence with the people passing through the movement. Various rumors were spread by some anti-social elements about the Mahapanchayat, but the Mahapanchayat was successful in mobilizing a large number of aware citizens.
The keynote speakers said that due to the closure of the border, this area of Sonipat has been completely taken hostage, all sections including the local farmers are continuously suffering. It cannot be denied that most of the incidents go undetected. Some told that facilities were being provided by them to the agitators continuously. Later they were assaulted.
Mr. Hemant Nandal, who was presiding over the Mahapanchayat, while narrating the decision of the Panchayat told The Sunday Guardian that the Mahapanchayat held the agitators and the government responsible for the problems being faced on the Singhu border and that the atmosphere of mutual goodwill of the local people should be maintained and due to the closure of the Singhu border. Some damage can be reduced, he said. For this, a week’s ultimatum is given to the agitators and the government with the unanimous consent of the Mahapanchayat.
If the one way is not cleared by the administration and the state government in the coming week, the agitators and the state government will be responsible for the situation ahead. Because it is both the main reason for opening and closing the border. The second decision taken in the Mahapanchayat was that if there is any violence on the border, then a committee will be formed with the local people for this, in which the guilty can get severe punishment and there should be no provision of compromise. The third important decision taken implied that often the agitators would be opposed by barricading to harass the local people because only the police should have the right to barricade. If any agitator does barricading anywhere at any time, strict legal action should be taken against him because he has come here to protest and not to block the way.
“People who need to travel for their jobs are facing a lot of problems. Students who go for their tuition and coaching classes are also hit. The industrial units and several shops are facing heavy losses. We have no issue with farmers, we are not against them but as citizens, we too have equal rights,” Ramphal Saroha, who presided over the event, told The Sunday Guardian.