Farmers’ protest remains mild in Roorkee
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Farmers’ protest remains mild in Roorkee
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Roorkee: The impact of the all-India Bharat Bandh, called by farmers across the country to repeal the three contentious farm laws passed by the Centre last year, was not felt in Roorkee or the surrounding towns of Bhagwanpur, Manglaur, Narsan and Laksar. City life went about as usual and traffic remained undisturbed. A group of around 300 protestors under the banner of the local wing of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (a joint platform of 40 farmer unions) took out a march and handed over a memorandum to the joint magistrate Roorkee to repeal the three laws. “We have given befitting messages to both the Centre and the state. If the farm laws are not scrapped, farmers’ protests will only swell by the day,” said Gulshan Rod, head of Uttarakhand Kisan Morcha, a key participant outfit under the SKM.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2021-09-28
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Dehradun