Addressing the press conference on Friday, All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha general secretary Ashish Mittal said, “The British forced farmers to grow indigo in 1857, this government wants farmers to do corporate farming.”
“They want us to grow broccoli. They want us to grow crops that are in the corporate interest and our self-sufficiency in grain is low.
When Section 144 was implemented in Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar due to increase in COVID-19 cases, Dharmendra Malik, media in-charge of Bharatiya Kisan Union, said that the farmers would not leave the dharna site. “We are taking precautions but if the government feels that we can spread the disease, they can get us vaccinated by organizing camps at the border,” he said.
Mr. Malik said that farmers will not get tired of Delhi’s borders.
He appealed to employees of public sector banks and companies that they were being privatized to join the movement. Jagtar Singh Bajwa, spokesperson of the Ghazipur protest committee, said that the farmers’ protest should be included in the achievement list brought by the state government. On completion of four years in power.
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