Farmers to Protest Outside Houses of BJP Lawmakers Across Country on Saturday

Ghaziabad: Farmers protesting the contentious farm legal guidelines will maintain demonstrations exterior the residences of BJP lawmakers throughout the nation on Saturday, a Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) office-bearer mentioned on Friday. The protest exterior the residences of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs and MLAs is to mark the one yr of the promulgation of these legal guidelines as ordinances by the Centre, the official mentioned. “The protestors would burn the copies of the legislations outside the residence of BJP MPs and MLAs across the country as a symbolic protest against the Centre,” BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik instructed PTI.

“In districts where there is no BJP MP or MLA, the protest would take place outside district magistrate’s office,” he added. The determination for the June 5 protest was taken throughout a current assembly of leaders of the farmers’ associations and unions that are tenting on Delhi borders since November 2020. Hundreds of farmers are encamped at Delhi’s borders demanding that the 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 be rolled again and a brand new regulation made to assure minimal help worth for crops.