Farmers observe ‘black day’ to mark 6 months of protests

Farmers agitating at three Delhi border points, raised black flags, shouted anti-government slogans, burnt effigies and took out protest marches as they observed 'black day' on Wednesday to mark the completion of six months of their stir against the three Central agri laws. Senior farmer leader Avtar Singh Mehma said that black flags have been hoisted not only at the protest sites but also in villages in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, "It has been six months since we have been protesting, but the government, which also completes seven years in office today, is not listening to us," said Mehma.

At the Singhu border, protestors held meetings, and took out a march towards the stage."If the government wants us to go back then it should listen to us and repeal the laws, because we are not going anywhere unless our demands are met. "It is not our hobby to sit in the heat and the cold at the borders. We also want to go back home and be safe," the farmer leader said. At Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, hundreds of farmers, led by Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, converged into groups as they burnt an effigy of the Centre in protest.