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Farmers to intensify agitation on December 14
December 12, 2020
Young protesters playing badminton on a foggy and chilly early morning after light rain at Delhi-UP border at Ghazipur, on Saturday The farmers protest enter 17th day camping on the Delhi borders since November 26 against farm laws. - Sandeep Saxena
Young protesters playing badminton on a foggy and chilly early morning after light rain at Delhi-UP border at Ghazipur, on Saturday The farmers protest enter 17th day camping on the Delhi borders since November 26 against farm laws. - Sandeep Saxena×
Farmer groups in different parts of the country thronged at toll gates on Saturday
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Opinion | How Punjab farmer agitation was hijacked by their Left-leaning leaders
In my prime time show âAaj Ki Baatâ on Friday night, we showed how a handful of farmer leaders, with Leftist and anti-Modi leanings, have hijacked the farmersâ agitation in Delhi. These are the leaders who want a bitter confrontation with the Centre and are trying to stall negotiations at each and every step. Even on Friday, the Union Agriculture Minister said that the government was ready for talks, but the farmer leaders should come forward and tell the provisions of farm laws which they want to be amended. But the handful of farmer leaders decided not to respond and intensified the agitation. They have announced that they would block roads and railway tracks in the National Capital region and bring normal life to a standstill.
Farmer leaders and demonstrators take umbrage at Union Minister’s ‘Leftists and Maoists’ remark
The government wants to divide us and put an end to the protest at any cost, said farmer leaders and protesters at the Singhu border after Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that ‘Leftists and Maoists have infiltrated the farmers protest’.
Avtar Singh Mehma, State press secretary of Krantikari Kisan Union Punjab, said that demand for public intellectuals, students, and activists who have been imprisoned for speaking ‘for the greater good of the nation’ has been on the list of demands since the very beginning of the protest, months ago.