As the farmers prepare to leave their protest sites on Delhi's borders on Saturday, the scenes are wrought with emotions.
Ever since the protest site came up at Delhi’s border with Haryana on GT Karnal Road or what is popularly known as Singhu border in November 2020, protesters have set up makeshift homes on that highway, stocked with all amenities required to weather the seasons.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farm unions, on Thursday decided to suspend the over a yearlong farmers' movement against three contentious farm laws and announced that farmers will go back home on December 11 from protest sites on Delhi's borders.
The announcement came after the SKM received a central government signed letter where it agreed to consider their pending demands, including withdrawal of cases against farmers and formation of a committee on the Minimum Support Price.
The Delhi Police will remove the multiple layers of barricades at the three farmers’ protest sites in a phased manner depending on the movement of the protesters who will start returning home from December 11, officials said on Friday.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday said the state government will welcome “the sons of the soil” on their “victorious” return from the Delhi borders.
Congratulating farmers, farm labourers and the Samyukt Kisan Morcha leaders, the CM said it was a victory of the people, and that the unity of various sections of the society forced the Modi government to roll back the “draconian black laws.
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