Farmers burn copies of Union agriculture minister’s letter

NOIDA (UP): Farmers camping at Delhi-Noida border in protests against the three recent farm laws of the Centre on Saturday burnt copies of an open letter of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar‘s written to them in a bid to pacify them.

A group of transgenders also joined farmers at their protest site at Chilla border during the day and entertained them with songs and dance, with some of them also taking digs at the government over its alleged adamant attitude over farm laws.

Scores of protestors from various districts of western Uttar Pradesh are camping at the Chilla border here and at a nearby Dalit Prerna Sthal since the first week of December.

As members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu), who are at Chilla border, burnt copies of the minister’s letter, Yogesh Pratap Singh, the UP unit chief of farmers’ group, said, “The protest will not be over until the three laws are repealed.”

The traffic movement on the Noida-Delhi Link Road via Chilla border, meanwhile,…

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