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Lockdown Declared To Weaken Protests, Claim Farmer Leaders

The leaders called upon farmers to send at least one family-member to protest sites at Delhi beginning May 10

Lockdown Declared To Weaken Protests, Claim Farmer Leaders
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Farmer leaders protesting at Delhi borders seeking a repeal of the new agriculture laws called for defying the lockdown declared by many state governments to control spread of COVID-19 infection. They called upon people to open shops on Saturday, May 8.

바카라œLockdown is being implemented to weaken the farmers바카라™ movement. It바카라™s not a remedy. It바카라™s affecting business. The government should rather formulate a strong policy,바카라 said farmer leader Baldev Singh Nihalgarh addressing media at protest site.

The National Capital is going through its third successive week of lockdown following the recent surge in Coronavirus cases this year.

Though not declaring a 바카라˜lockdown바카라™, Punjab shut down all the shops in the state till May 15. However, shops selling essential items will remain open. There are no curbs on nursing homes and laboratories.

Haryana government has imposed a week-long lockdown till 10 May (5 am). Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh government has decided to extend the partial 'corona curfew' till 7 AM on May 10.

Most of the protestors are from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.

According to Balbir Singh Rajewal, president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), the states were trying to stop farmers from reaching the sit-in protest sites at Delhi바카라™s borders.

바카라œWe call upon all farmers to send at least one family-member to the protest sites beginning May 10,바카라 he said.

바카라œThey are just trying to cover up their own faults,바카라 he added.

Several leaders of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is spearheading the anti- farm law protests in Delhi, claimed that the government has ignored their requests for setting up vaccine centres at the protest sites.

They said that though they have arranged hand sanitisers and face masks for the protestors and visitors, authorities should have made elaborate provisions for maintaining health and hygiene.

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