Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM)

What it is: The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) is a farm-union platform in Punjab, convened by Sarwan Singh Pandher. In February 2024 Al Jazeera named it as one of three bodies spearheading the march to Delhi, along with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee. KMM is listed apart from the Samyukt Kisan Morcha that led the 2020 to 2021 morcha at the Delhi borders. The sources we opened give no founding date, constitution or list of member unions for KMM.

Leaders: Sarwan Singh Pandher is its leader and, in 2026, its convener. Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who was on an indefinite hunger strike at the border, was detained with him in March 2025.

Key moments

• 13 February 2024: the march to Delhi is stopped at the Punjab and Haryana border. By 1 December 2024 farmers under SKM (Non-Political) and KMM had camped at Shambhu and Khanauri for 293 days, and Pandher said the Centre had held no talks on their demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP.
• 19 March 2025: Punjab Police cleared the Shambhu border and removed the protest structures, taking Pandher and Dallewal into custody. Punjab minister Harpal Singh Cheema said the borders had to be reopened and that the demands lay with the Centre.
• By 30 June 2026: KMM was holding statewide dharnas against officials of the power utility PSPCL during paddy transplanting. Farmers heading to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's Lok Milni at Moga were detained, and Pandher warned of a chakka jam if the government kept suppressing farmers.
• 30 June 2026: at Amritsar, KMM demonstrated outside the Chief Engineer's office. Border zone officials assured it that eight hours of daily farm supply would be addressed and that meetings would follow on 10 July and 15 July.

Its demands: Pandher demanded at least 16 hours of uninterrupted power for agriculture in the paddy season and 24 hours for homes. The Tribune's headline for the Amritsar protest says KMM sought eight hours, but its text has Pandher asking for 16 and officials speaking of eight. KMM also asked for quick replacement of faulty transformers, a halt to smart meters, recruitment to vacant PSPCL posts, an end to what it called privatisation and cancellation of power purchase agreements with private thermal plants.

Three accounts of the supply: Pandher said many areas received only two and a half to four hours a day. PSPCL's chairman, Dr Basant Garg, said on 3 July that between 27 and 30 June some farm feeders got six to seven hours instead of the scheduled eight, blaming a heat wave and a strike by contract workers at thermal plants. On 14 July Power Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond said PSPCL had met a record demand of 17,328 MW without power cuts and that farmers were getting more than eight hours.

Where it stands: The sources we opened do not report what came of the meetings of 10 and 15 July.