The Bharatiya Kisan Union on Thursday, 20th May urged the farmers to postpone the protest after two farmers succumbed to covid at Singhu Border. The two farmers Balbir Singh (50) and Mahender Singh (70) residents of Patiala and Ludhiana respectively died of Covid on Tuiesday.
Talking to the news agency, ANI Bhopal Singh of Bharatiya Kisan Union (kisan sarkar) said that the protest must be postponed because if the farmers keep dying like this who will agitate. He also added that only if the farmers survive they will be called ‘annadata’. Only if they postpone the protest will they be able to save their lives and their crops. They will carry out the agitation later but the situation is not right currently. “We must be with the naqtions in these difficult times”, he added.
The farmers have been protesting for many months now against the new farm laws introduced by the centre last year.
2 farmers died at Singhu border due to Corona. If farmers keep dying like this who will agitate? So I'd like to request to farmers, that looking at the crisis in the country, we must postpone agitation for the time being: Bhopal Singh, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Kisan Sarkar) spox pic.twitter.com/rZPYZAYbYn
— ANI (@ANI) May 20, 2021
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