Farmers on Sunday held prayer meetings across the country to pay their respects to the protestors who died during the ongoing agitation ag...
Farmers on Sunday held prayer meetings across the country to pay their respects to the protestors who died during the ongoing agitation against the new agricultural laws, reported The Hindu. The call for the “Shradhanjali Diwas [day of homage]” was given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a joint front of farmer unions.
“The farmers and all sections of the people will pay homage to them from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on December 20 by organising condolence meetings, human chain and garlanding the photos of the departed fighters in more than one lakh villages across the country,” said All-India Kisan Sabha in a statement.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at Delhi’s borders, choking highways in giant demonstrations against the new legislations that they say will lead to lower prices and pave the way for corporate exploitation. Braving the harsh winter, they have hunkered down with supplies that can last weeks, saying they will not leave till the government abolishes the “black laws”.
Dozens of them have died, several of them due to the biting cold weather, as they camp out in the open in their tractors and trailers. While the exact toll was not known, the numbers are growing.
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