The alarming rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Delhi notwithstanding, farmer leaders on Thursday said that nothing, not even the fear of coronavirus, can disrupt their protest against the agri laws. Over the past four months, the farmers have managed to keep their agitation going, withstanding extreme cold, rains, and heat. They devised many ways to deal with these issues - for cold there was ample supply of winter wear, for rain they elevated their beds, and to prepare for the heat, they have started building houses, and arranging for ACs, coolers and fans. Tackling the second wave of COVID-19 won t be very different for them, they said, adding they are prepared with certain basic precautions in place.
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MHA Says Punjab Farmers Give Drugs to Migrant Workers to Extract More Work, Union Slams Claim
The letter is being looked at by the protesting farmers as yet another salvo by the Narendra Modi government to malign them.
A labourer drinks water while harvesting wheat crop at a field in Jhanpur village of the northern Indian state of Punjab April 18, 2012. Photo: Reuters/Ajay Verma
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New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has dispatched a letter to the Punjab government, alleging that farmers in its border areas have been administering “drugs” to migrant and bonded workers to work in their fields in order to extract longer hours of work from them.