Protesting Farmers Usher In New Year With Kheer , Bonfires And Folk Songs
Scores of farmers affiliated to BKU (Lok Shakti) rang in the new year at the Dalit Prerna Sthal and had bonfires to brave the chilling cold of the night.
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Farmers camping at Delhi-Noida border in protest against the three central farm laws on Friday greeted the new year with bonfires, folk songs, kheer and health check-up for themselves.
Members of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu) and Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) have been staying put here at the Chilla border and the Dalit Prerna Sthal respectively since the first week of December.
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Agitating Farmers Greet 2021 with Bonfires, Folk Songs and Kheer
Farmers have been protesting for weeks in Singhu border against Centre s new agri reforms | Image credit: PTI
Scores of farmers affiliated to BKU (Lok Shakti) rang in the new year at the Dalit Prerna Sthal and had bonfires to brave the chilling cold of the night and early morning and regaled to the tunes of folk songs.
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Farmers camping at Delhi-Noida border in protest against the three central farm laws on Friday greeted the new year with bonfires, folk songs, kheer and health check-up for themselves. Members of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu) and Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) have been staying put here at the Chilla border and the Dalit Prerna Sthal respectively since the first week of December.
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New Delhi: Farmers during Delhi Chalo protest march against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020.
Braving the biting cold, scores of farmers stayed put at the Delhi-Noida border near Chilla on Saturday night in protest against the three recent farm laws of the Centre even as other agitating farmers returned home for night stay. During the day, farmers groups from various Western Uttar Pradesh districts visit the border, join demonstrations and then return by evening, leaving local protestors and those from nearby districts at the site for an overnight stay, said Yogesh Pratap Singh, the UP unit chief of the BKU (Bhanu).Â
Farmers Protest: Govt ready to discuss every clause; Kejriwal warns new laws could lead to inflation The heads of 32 farmer unions on Monday held a nine-hour hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm as part of their plan to intensify their agitation from 14 December FP Staff December 14, 2020 20:51:17 IST Farmers participate in a hunger strike during their protest against the Centre s farm reform laws, in Hisar district, Haryana on Monday. PTI
As the agitation against the three contentious farm laws entered its 19th day on Monday, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the Centre was ready to discuss every clause of the three contentious farm laws with the protesting farmers and that the government is engaging with farmer leaders to decide on the next date of talks.
Farmers at Singhu border during their one-day hunger strike against the centre s farm reform laws, in New Delhi on Monday. Photo/ PTI
NEW DELHI: As the farmers protest against the three agriculture laws entered the third week, representatives of more than two dozen farmers unions observed a day-long hunger strike on Monday. The unions claimed that demonstrations took place at several places across the country. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal as well as several leaders of his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) joined the fast to support the farmers.
Meanwhile, defence minister Rajnath Singh reiterated that agriculture was a mother sector and there was no question of taking any retrograde steps against it ever.