As part of their protest against the three farm laws heads of all farmer unions started hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm today. they also announced to intensify agitation in coming days .
Governmet agencies have been stopping farmers from reaching Delhi, our protests will continue till our demands are met. Our stand is clear, we want the three farm laws to be repealed. All farmer unions participating in this movement are together,” said Shiv Kumar Kakka, farmer leader.
meanwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to people to fast wherever they are in support of protesting farmers, and asserted that farmers will win in the end.
Kejriwal is holding a one-day fast in support of the farmers’ protest .
Farmer leaders are observing a day-long hunger strike as part of their protest against the three new farm laws.
The chief minister also urged his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers, supporters, as well as the people of the country to join the farmers’ agitation.
“Fasting is sacred. Wherever you are, fast for our farmer brothers. Pray to God for the success of their struggle. In the end, farmers will definitely win,” Kejriwal tweeted.
Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said he is observing the fast at the party office with other party members.
“The Anndaata farmer of the country is on hunger strike demanding the withdrawal of the three laws of the central government for the sake of saving his daily bread. In support of the demand of farmers, today I am also on a fast with all my colleagues in the Aam Aadmi Party office,” Sisodia tweeted.
Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Som Parkash met Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday amidst farmers’ protests against the Centre’s three agriculture laws, news agency PTI reported. The ministers were accompanied by BJP leaders from Punjab. Tomar and Parkash, along with their ministerial colleague Piyush Goyal, had led the government’s negotiations with the protesting farmers.
Leaders of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), who had organised an event to demand the release of jailed activists last week, have decided to distance themselves from the one-day hunger strike call given by 32 farmer unions from Punjab on Monday. Sukhdev Singh, Punjab general secretary of BKU Ekta Ugrahan, said that Ugrahan leaders will not observe fast. “We will not participate (in one-day hunger strike),” Farmer unions, most of them from Punjab, have started their hunger strike against the Centre’s new farm laws. Also, they have given a call to stage dharnas at district headquarters across the country.