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Farmers from Punjab gathered successful Chandigarh connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) to property for their agelong pending demands, including a ineligible warrant connected minimum enactment terms (MSP) for crops among others.
Farmers associated with implicit 30 husbandman and workplace labour unions nether the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) assembled to people the 5th day of their ‘anti-farm instrumentality agitation’ against the Central Government and submitted a memorandum of their demands to section authorities, addressed to the President of India.
“We person demanded that agriculture and different sectors related to agriculture should beryllium excluded from the tax-free commercialized agreements being made with assorted countries. MSP and acquisition warrant laws and imperishable employment should beryllium arranged. Besides, the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 should not beryllium passed,” said Jagmohan Singh, wide secretary, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Dakonda) and subordinate of SKM.
Accepting the large request of the students of Panjab University, the assemblage legislature elections should beryllium announced. The National Education Policy should beryllium repealed. Education should beryllium included successful the State List alternatively of the Concurrent List of the Constitution. The Punjab authorities itself should formulate and instrumentality an appropriate, technological and antiauthoritarian acquisition argumentation according to the needs of the state.
“Apart from this, we privation the complaint of sugarcane should beryllium accrued to ₹500 per quintal. The cases, fines, etc. registered against farmers for burning paddy stubble should beryllium cancelled. All remaining demands of the ‘Delhi agitation’ and each cases registered against farmers during the conflict should beryllium dropped,” helium added.
Separately, students staged a protestation successful Panjab University successful Chandigarh, demanding the announcement of Senate elections. Students nether the banner of ‘Panjab University Bachao Morcha’, had fixed a telephone for a shutdown of the University, adjacent arsenic the University authorities had already declared a vacation connected November 26.
While the University had already initiated the process for the elections, seeking support from the Vice-President of India, the University’s Chancellor, however, the students are adamant that until the Senate canvass docket is announced, their protestation would continue.
A radical of erstwhile senators, including Professor Chaman Lal person demanded that the predetermination docket of the Senate should beryllium instantly notified.
“The elected Senate should code the contented of world reforms indispensable for the maturation of the University, but without harming the antiauthoritarian operation of the University. Central authorities should either transportation Chandigarh metropolis to Punjab to fulfill its agelong pending and accepted morganatic demand, which volition lick Panjab University issue, arsenic the inter authorities quality of the University volition revert to Punjab State University arsenic it was betwixt 1947 to 1966 oregon marque a wide declaration that Chandigarh and by accusation Panjab University volition beryllium handed implicit to Punjab successful a clip bound manner,” helium said.
