Farmers hoist black flags atop houses
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Farmers hoist black flags atop houses
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Coimbatore: Members of several farmer associations, trade unions and political parties hoisted black flags at their offices and houses in the district on Wednesday to show their solidarity with farmers protesting in New Delhi against the three controversial farm laws.The day was observed as a ‘Black Day’ to mark the completion of six months of agitation against the farm laws.Coimbatore MP PR Natarajan also hoisted a black flag in front of his house in support of farmers.District secretariat member of CPM KS Kanagaraj said, “The central government should immediately withdraw the three farm laws that are against the welfare of the farmers. It has been six months since the farmers had started protesting, but the government has not paid heed to their demands.”“We also demand the central government to allocate more funds to the state governments from the PM Cares Fund to fight the pandemic,” he said.The Centre should focus on procuring/producing Covid vaccines in large numbers instead of infrastructure developments which could wait for few more months, he added.TNN
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The Times of India
Date
2021-05-27
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Coimbatore