INDIAN FARMERS CONTINUE PROTEST AT DELHI BORDERS AMID RAIN, COLD

Sun 03 January 2021:

The farmers, who have been camping on the borders of Delhi for over a month in protest against the new farm laws, continued their agitation amid a downpour leading to waterlogging at the protest sites. Farmers were seen huddled together under blankets inside their vehicles to keep warm. Tents were set up with waterproof tarpaulin sheets as protection from the rain.

“We are living on the streets in such harsh weather conditions away from our family. We’re hopeful that the government will accept our demands tomorrow,” a protesting farmer at the Gazipur (Delhi-UP) border told ANI.

Meanwhile, politician Yogendra Yadav, speaking on behalf of the farmers’ unions, informed on Friday that the protesting farmers will intensify their agitation at Delhi borders if the centre declines their demands of a repeal of the three agriculture laws and giving legal status to the minimum support price guarantee in the next round of talks, scheduled on January 4.

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After the sixth round of the farmer-centre talks on Wednesday, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had said that the two sides had arrived at an “agreement” on two of the four demands.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday compared the ongoing farmers’ protests against the three new Central agriculture-related laws with the Champaran agitation during the British rule, and said every farmer-labourer part of the current movement is a ”satyagrahi” and they will take their rights back.

“The country is going to face a Champaran-like tragedy. British were ”company Bahadur” back then and now Modi-friends are ”company Bahadur”,” Mr Gandhi alleged in a tweet in Hindi.

“But, every farmer-labourer of the movement is a ”satyagrahi” who will take back their rights,” the former Congress chief said.