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40 thousand women farmers will arrive at Delhi borders on Women’s Day

40 thousand women farmers will arrive at Delhi borders on Women's Day
40 thousand women farmers will arrive at Delhi borders on Women's Day

On the occasion of Women’s Day, women are encouraged by introducing women power at different places in the country. 

There are also peasant women who are seen as superwomen who also handle the house, also handle the fields and also handle the movements when the need arises again. 

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You must have seen these women working in the fields or cooking at different places for the protesting farmers. Today, on the occasion of Women’s Day, women protestors are reaching the movement sites to demonstrate the power of women. 

According to a report published in India Dude, about 40 thousand farmers will reach the demonstration sites.

Several thousand women protestors are reaching Delhi by driving tractors from all the districts of Punjab, Haryana, on the occasion of Women’s Day, these women protesters will be the center of all the protest sites. 

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Farmer leaders said that in order to acknowledge the role of women in agriculture and life, elaborate arrangements have been made to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Yogendra Yadav, president of Swaraj India, says, “The Samyukta Kisan Morcha has always valued the power of women farmers during the movement. Women will hold protests at all sites – whether they are toll barriers or permanent protest sites. This is their day. “

Farmer unions have claimed that around 40,000 women from different parts of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh will gather at the Delhi protest sites, including the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders.

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 Every Kisan Sangh has its own women’s branch, but this branch of the Indian Kisan Sangh (Ugarhan) is the largest.

Farmers union leaders said these women would celebrate International Women’s Day on Monday and then return to take care of children, farms and senior family members at home.

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