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: Monday, December 14, 2020, 9:37 AM IST Want to wake the govt up : Farmers intensify protest against new agri laws, launch one-day fast
Farmers leaders including Rakesh Tikait of Bharatiya Kisan Union sit on a hunger strike at Ghazipur border
As the ongoing farmers protest at Delhi borders entered the 19th day, the peasants union has intensified the agitation with one-day hunger strike at all protest sites on Monday.
Forty farmer leaders from different unions will sit on hunger strike today at all borders points between 8 am to 5 pm.
25 of them will sit at Singhu border, 10 at Tikri border and 5 at Ghazipur border, Harinder Singh Lakhowal, General Secy, BKU (Punjab), said.
Hunger strike by farmer leaders today; traffic stalled on Delhi-Jaipur highway
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he too will observe a day-long fast on Monday and appealed to the central government “to shun ego and scrap the legislation”. PTI December 14, 2020 / 08:20 AM IST
File image of farmers protesting against the new farm laws on the outskirts of New Delhi (Image: AP)
Leaders of agitating farmer unions said they will hold a one-day hunger strike on Monday and protests will be held in all district headquarters to press their demand for the repeal of the new farm laws, as more protesters headed for Delhi with a large group blocking the key Delhi-Jaipur national highway when it was stopped by police on Haryana-Rajasthan border.