New Delhi (TIP): Farmers protesting at the Singhu and Tikri borders for over four months against the Centre’s three farm laws are not planning to call off their stir anytime soon amid the worsening Covid-19 situation in Delhi.

According to the farmers at Singhu and Tikri borders, Covid is being “over-glorified” so that the government can finish all the opposition and protests against them.

“We will boost our immunity, take care of our health and start vaccination drives at protest sites. But we will not get up,” protesting farmers said.

Last week, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been camping at the Ghazipur border, said farmers protesting the contentious new farm laws are ready to talk if the Centre invites them, maintaining that the dialogue would resume where it had ended on January 22 and the demands remain unchanged.

He said for the talks to resume, the government should invite the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body representing the protesters who are camping at the three border points of Delhi at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur since November 2020.

“The talks with the government would resume from the same point where it had ended on January 22. The demands are also the same — all three ‘black’ farm laws should be repealed, a new law made to ensure MSP (minimum support price) for crops,” Tikait was quoted as saying in a statement issued by BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik.

Source: India Today