New Delhi: The farmers, who’ve continued with their protests in opposition to the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines regardless of the Covid-19 pandemic, will observe a ‘black day’ in Delhi on Wednesday to mark six months of their agitation.
This comes because the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a union of 40 farmers’ outfits, has issued a name for ‘black day’ to mark six months of the continued agitation.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait, nonetheless, downplayed the issues concerning giant gathering within the nationwide capital in view of the surge in Covid-19 circumstances.
“We will put up black flags. There will be no crowding or public meeting. Nobody is marching to Delhi. The people will put up the flags wherever they are. It’s been six months now, the government hasn’t taken back the black laws,” ANI quoted Tikait as saying.
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Below are the newest developments with regard to the farmers’ protests:
1. As many as twelve main opposition events have prolonged their assist to Black Day march by farmers. Sonia Gandhi (Congress), H D Deve Gowda (JD-S), Sharad Pawar (NCP), Mamata Banerjee (TMC), Uddhav Thackeray (SS), M Ok Stalin (DMK), Hemant Soren (JMM), Farooq Abdullah (JKPA), Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Tejaswi Yadav (RJD), D Raja (CPI) and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) have signed joint assertion.
2. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday prolonged her assist to the protest name given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and requested the Centre to undertake a sympathetic angle in the direction of the farmers.
3. Meanwhile, Delhi Police has urged folks to not maintain gatherings as a result of COVID scenario and the continued lockdown and stated it’s conserving a decent vigil to cope with any scenario on the protest websites on the town’s borders.
4. Action will probably be taken in opposition to those that attempt to take the regulation into their palms, Delhi Police PRO Chinmoy Biswal stated, including that the drive is already current in any respect borders factors, together with the protest websites of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur, and won’t enable any criminal activity or entry.
5. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) too on Sunday prolonged its assist to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s name to watch a national protest on May 26 to mark completion of six months of its motion in opposition to the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines
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Thousands of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at three Delhi border factors since November final 12 months, demanding the three farm legal guidelines – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020, – handed final 12 months by the Centre be repealed
So far, 11 rounds of talks between 40 farm leaders and the federal government have failed to interrupt the impasse over the three legal guidelines. The final spherical was on January 22. There has been no talks between the 2 sides since January 26 when the farmers’ tractor rally within the nationwide capital turned violent
