City women take to wheels to back farmers’ agitation

Ludhiana: A group of women from the city took out a car rally in support of the farmers here on Sunday. It was headed by Arvinder Kaur Virk and Inderjit Kaur Virk, along with Arvinder Kaur Ghuman, Rani Deol, Bubbly Grewal, Paramjit Kaur Chahal, Sweety Waalia, Jasbir Gill, Balwinder Gill, among others. Students from different walks of life too attended the function and participated in the car rally, which saw many participants.The rally started from near a resort on Barewal Road and went up to Bharat Nagar Chowk and back.
Arvinder said that the purpose of organising the rally was to inform the governments, both at the Centre and in states, that the entire nation was with the farmers and supported their demands. She added that they also wanted to make the people aware that farmers were fighting for the people of India and that ‘we should awaken our sleeping conscious’.
“The message given to the government through this rally is that if required, then women can leave their household work and jump into this agitation, with the sole motive of getting the black laws withdrawn. When the entire world is claiming that the laws are bad, including lawyers and judges, then how can a Prime Minister and his ministry claim that the laws are good,” she said. “The farmers for whom the laws have been enacted do not accept these, then why is the government forcing these on them.”
Ishwin Kaur Ghuman said that it was not a matter of politics as was being claimed by the government, but rather the matter was of inheritance. She added that the laws were illegal.
“It is not the farmers’ agitation any more, rather it has become a civil society agitation, wherein people from all walks of life are participating. The laws which deprive the farmers of their right are bad laws. The government is doing false propaganda and the youth is aware about the illegal designs. The government cannot divide the Indian society on the basis of religion, caste or creed,” she said. “And that the government is alleging that the matter is that of farmers produce only is also wrong as the matter is of generations to come and of our generation also.” She added that any false propaganda by government could not divide the people, whether on the matter of Khalistan or CAA or Shaheen Bagh or of foreign funding or any other.
“In fact, when Punjabis have been holding camps and langars across India during Covid or during disasters, then the government did not bother about funding and now to make the agitation political it was using all these sought of dirty tactics to divide the nation. The new generation is with the views and sentiments of farmers and shall stand by them,” the protesters said.
The organisers said that people from all walks of life participated in Sunday's rally, thereby stating that people of the country were with the farmers and were against the laws. They added that all participants raised slogans in favour of farmers and also expressed their solidarity.