Not spreading Covid, we grow food which builds immunity: Farmers mark six month of stir at Ghazipur, Singhu borders
India Today
In response to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s (SKM) call for a nationwide strike against the controversial agriculture laws, farmers, some of them wearing black turbans, were seen waving black flags and burning effigies of PM Modi at Delhi's Ghazipur and Singhu borders.
Tents converted into permanent structures, long stretches of bamboo huts built under flyovers, essential commodities stocked up and ACs running on generators to beat the heat the standoff by farmers at Delhi’s Ghazipur and Singhu borders continues. Six months into the movement against the controversial agriculture laws, farmers seem to be in no mood to let the steam off. And on Wednesday, in response to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s (SKM) call for a nationwide strike, farmers, some of them wearing black turbans, were seen waving black flags and burning effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At Singhu, the PM’s effigy was first paraded on an “arthi” amid anti-government slogans and then burnt. “It has been six months of protests. It started from Punjab, and spread to Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and other states. After Bengal, we want UP and Uttarakhand to be BJP-mukt,” said a protester at Singhu border.
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