Covid India: Farmer unions encourage people to ignore curbs
Web report/New Delhi
Farmers shout slogans during a protest in Amritsar, Punjab. Photo: AFP
Leaders accuse government of creating panic under the guise of a second Covid wave.
In what could pose a major challenge for the Indian government and authorities in many northern states, battling the raging Covid crisis, a group of farmer unions in Punjab has decided to encourage people including shopkeepers and traders to ignore the curbs and the lockdowns and also join a protest march to the outskirts of Delhi.
Leaders of 32 farmer unions met under the leadership of Baldev Singh Nihalgarh on Thursday at the Singhu border near Delhi and accused the government of creating a panic under the guise of a second Covid wave.