Farmers continue to protest after talks with center do not bring respite
The farmers organization plan to meet at Delhi-Haryana border today, to plan out strategies after they turned down the government's second proposal of forming a committee to discuss the agrarian farm laws. The meeting will be held at the Singhu border by 32 farmer organizations.
The route that connects the eastern part of Delhi to Noida in Uttar Pradesh has been shut as the protesting farmers sit in the Noida-Delhi border for the second time. The protest are also being held at the Burari which was initially allocated to the farmers in the outskirts of the city.The Maharashtra farmers’ unions in support of the agitating farmers in Delhi have extended their support to them and have called for a state-wide protest tomorrow.
The 1999 Arjuna awardee Sajjan Singh Cheema who is a former basketball player of India said “The farmers have been holding peaceful agitation for several months, but water cannons and tear gas shells were used against them.”
At present the farmers don’t seem much convinced with the explanations of the government and are also not in a mood to take suggestions regarding the formation of a committee. The farmers say that the new laws will deprive them of MSP’s by the government and leave the farmers at the mercy of the corporate institutions.
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