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Farmers in a flooded camp on Delhi’s Singhu border
BATHINDA: With the second wave of Covid-19 wreaking havoc across India and questions being raised on assembly of people everywhere, farm groups have vehemently denied that gathering of people is contributing to rising number of cases.
Though it is said the second wave started in the middle of February in Maharashtra, a publication has stated that the second wave originated from the farmers’ protest in early January with Punjab and Haryana becoming the hotspots.
The organisations, reacting to a claim in one publication that the second wave originated at farmers’ protest, said in that case it would have first caused devastation at the stir sites. There is no evidence of any Covid-19 case at the protest sites, despite large number of persons gathering there, they have claimed. Earlier, nearly 400 farmers had died due to various reasons at protests but after the advent of second wave, the death rate has declined at the protest
“We have a team of four persons to decide on editorial content. Controversy was due to communication gap. There was nothing wrong with editorial. Some people had objected over Udoke, who had written the editorial. But later we clarified that he was not in our editorial team. He just wrote editorial,” said Ajaypal Natt, another member of ‘Trolley Times’ team and son of a farmer union leader Sukhdarshan Natt.
Sukhpreet Udoke said, “No one could explain to me what was wrong with editorial. My opposition was only due to one reason that I am seen as Sikh writer and activist. Farmer unions are mostly Left and they are not able to tolerate diversity in this agitation. They are in fix as decision making is no more in their hands due to massive size of this agitation and it is the reason that they are searching for scapegoats.”