Protests against big businesses too from Dec 26: Kisan leader
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Protests against big businesses too from Dec 26: Kisan leader
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NEW DELHI: As fresh batches of farmers from Maharashtra and Punjab joined the protesting farmers at Delhi’s borders where the sit-in blockade will complete a month on December 26, farmer leaders appeared to be preparing for a long haul without any ‘deadline’ in mind until the government accepts their demands over the farm laws. “The government wants to tire us, but the farmers have no deadline. They (Centre) are misjudging the mood of the moment… the farmers say we will sit here for six months but will not return empty-handed. This is a unique movement where 500 groups from across the country have come together and they don’t have a single point of difference. They have one demand… repeal the three farm laws,” Hannan Mollah, general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), told TOI. He said that from December 26, farmers’ groups will start picketing in front of business establishments of big corporates, calling for boycott of their products. AIKSCC has roped in teachers, students and workers for this protest. “This is a movement for turning agriculture pro-corporate,” he said. Mollah explained that a meeting is held daily at 2pm at the Singhu border where most of the farmers’ groups from Punjab and Haryana have congregated, and it is followed by a meeting in Delhi at 8pm after which the two sections decide on joint decisions. “It is such a huge movement but not a single leaf of a tree has been disturbed… it is the most peaceful movement… even Gandhiji (Mahatma Gandhi) must be watching over us,” he said. “We are ready for talks when there is an agenda but the government has no agenda yet,” Mollah said, adding that the Centre “has been repeating the same points at every meeting held so far”. He denied any section of farmers approaching the Supreme Court. “The person who has approached the SC is a Delhi-based person, not a farmer, who is an agent of BJP and is being represented by Harish Salve.”
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The Times of India
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2020-12-24
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India