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A large number of farmers had reached Delhi’s borders on 26 November last year after facing water cannons and police barriers as part of their Delhi Chalo march against the Centre’s farm laws
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a joint forum of farmer unions protesting the three farm laws, on Thursday said they will observe Sampoorna Kranti Diwas on June 5.
Farmers Protest: Farmer leader Narendra Tikait says the agitation will continue
Farmers are ready to continue protests on the borders of Delhi, against the three agricultural laws, for the remaining three and half years of the Narendra Modi government s second term, said farmer leader Narendra Tikait. The protests cannot be culled he said. The farmers protest has been continuing for more than 100 days. Narendra Tikait does not hold any official position in the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), formed by his father, Mahendra Singh Tikait, in 1986. He mostly focuses on the family s farming activities but is as vocal on farmers issues as his two elder brothers, Naresh and Rakesh Tikait, who are leading from the front.
File photo of India s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. | Harsh Vardhan Shringla/ Twitter
India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday summoned the British High Commissioner, and expressed opposition to the “unwarranted and tendentious” discussion in the British Parliament related to the Indian farmers protest.
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said that Shringla made it clear that the debate held by the British MPs was a “gross interference” in the politics of another country. “He advised that British MPs should refrain from practising vote bank politics by misrepresenting events, especially in relation to another fellow democracy,” the statement added.