Farmers protest latest updates: Farmers were seen huddled under blankets.
New Delhi:
Farmers, who have been camping on the Delhi borders for more than a month in protest against the new farm laws, continued their agitation amid a downpour that caused flooding at protest sites. Farmers were seen huddled under blankets inside their vehicles to keep warm. The tents were set up with tarpaulins as protection against the rain.
“We live on the streets in such harsh weather conditions far from our family. We are hopeful that the government will accept our demands tomorrow,” a farmer protesting on the Gazipur (Delhi-UP) border told ANI.
Meanwhile, politician Yogendra Yadav, speaking on behalf of the farmers’ unions, reported on Friday that protesting farmers will intensify their agitation at the Delhi borders if the center rejects their demands to repeal the three farm laws and give legal status to the minimum. Guaranteed support price in the next round of talks, scheduled for January 4.
After the sixth round of talks by the farmers’ center on Wednesday, the Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had said that the two sides had reached an “agreement” on two of the four demands.
Here are the live updates on the farmers’ protests:
Delhi: Rainwater entered the protesting farmers’ camps on the Burari field; a protester says: “The government does not listen to us, we will continue our agitation.” pic.twitter.com/r5UDdZScLJ
– ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2021
Soggy tents, soggy firewood and blankets, and cold conditions: Farmers camping on the Delhi borders in protest against new farm laws had a rough morning on Sunday due to night rains.
The continued downpour caused puddles in places of unrest and the waterproof tents did not help much, according to protesters.
Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar, who is a member of Sankyukt Kisan Morcha, said that farmers have waterproof tents but cannot protect them from cold and waterlogging.
“The situation is very bad in the protest sites due to the rain that has caused flooding. It is so cold after the rains, but the government cannot see our misery,” he said.
Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday compared the ongoing farmers’ protests against the three new core laws related to agriculture to the Champaran agitation during the British government, saying that every part of the movement’s farmers and workers He is currently a ” satyagrahi ” and he will regain his rights.
“The country will face a tragedy similar to that of Champaran. The British were ‘the Bahadur company’ back then and now Modi’s friends are ‘the Bahadur company,'” Gandhi alleged in a Hindi tweet.
“But every farmer-worker in the movement is a ‘satyagrahi’ who will regain his rights,” said the former head of Congress.
Delhi: Protesters remove rainwater from their camps on the Singhu (Delhi-Haryana) border, where the protest against the Center’s agricultural laws entered on the 39th.
One protester says: “The rains are good for our crops. When we work in our fields we get wet, it doesn’t matter if we have to deal with the rain here.” pic.twitter.com/e9GpF53mHp
– ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2021
Despite the ongoing rains and cold snap in North India, farmers agitating against the Center’s farm laws stood firm on the borders of the national capital and continued their protest for the 37th on Sunday.
“We live on the streets in such harsh weather conditions away from our family. We are hopeful that the government will accept our demands tomorrow,” a farmer protesting on the Gazipur (Delhi-UP) border told ANI.
Farmers were seen huddled under blankets inside their vehicles to keep warm. The tents were set up with tarpaulins as protection against the rain.
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