Farmers in a flooded camp on Delhi’s Singhu border
BATHINDA: With the second wave of Covid-19 wreaking havoc across India and questions being raised on assembly of people everywhere, farm groups have vehemently denied that gathering of people is contributing to rising number of cases.
Though it is said the second wave started in the middle of February in Maharashtra, a publication has stated that the second wave originated from the farmers’ protest in early January with Punjab and Haryana becoming the hotspots.
The organisations, reacting to a claim in one publication that the second wave originated at farmers’ protest, said in that case it would have first caused devastation at the stir sites. There is no evidence of any Covid-19 case at the protest sites, despite large number of persons gathering there, they have claimed. Earlier, nearly 400 farmers had died due to various reasons at protests but after the advent of second wave, the death rate has declined at the protests, they added.