If laws can be made amid Covid-19, why can't they be repealed: Farm leader

If laws can be made amid the Covid19 pandemic why cannot they be repealed BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said on Wednesday underlining that farmers camping at Delhi border points will leave after the three contentious Central agri laws are withdrawnHis remark came on a day when farmers protesting against the legislations at the Tikri Ghazipur and Singhu border points observed black day to mark six months of their stirThe movement will continue for a long time the Bharatiya Kisan Union BKU leader said while addressing hundreds of protestors at Ghazipur on the DelhiUttar Pradesh borderThe call to observe black day was given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha SKM an umbrella organisation of protesting farmer unions which is spearheading the stir against the laws that were enacted in September last yearHundreds of farmers mainly from Punjab Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are encamped at the three Delhi border points since November last year Besides demanding that the legislations be repealed they have also sought a new law guaranteeing minimum support price MSP for cropsAlso Read Supreme Courtappointed committee on three farm laws submits reportThe protestors claim that the laws will hurt their livelihoods and leave them at the mercy of corporations However the government which has officially held multiple rounds of dialogues with the protestors has maintained that the laws are profarmerGroups of protestors converged at the UP Gate on the DelhiMeerut Expressway as part of the black day demonstrations and burnt an effigy symbolising the Centre amid heavy police deployment This led to a brief scuffle between the two sides in which the BKU claimed one farmer got a little burnt when security officials tried to snatch away the effigyThe movement will continue for a long time If laws can be made during the Covid pandemic then why cannot they be repealed during the pandemic Tikait the BKU national spokesperson saidThe government has been trying to crush the movement and will do so in the future also But the farmer is not going to leave Delhi borders The farmer can return home only on the same condition repeal all three new laws and make a new law guaranteeing MSP for crops he was quoted as saying in a BKU statementThe influential farmer leader from western Uttar Pradesh also said that he does not know what will be the fate of the movement but knows for sure that if the movement fails then the government will do as it pleasesIf the movement is successful the future generations of farmers will get its benefit remarked Tikait who is credited with reviving the protests after it lost its sheen post the January 26 violence in DelhiDuring his address to supporters Tikait sporting a black turban also hit out at the government over the handling of the Covid pandemic citing black marketing of resources and shortage of health care facilities for the public hit by the deadly virusThere was an attempt to loot the country in the name of the illness he allegedHe reiterated that the BKU will not allow business over hunger in the countryFor this Tikait called on the supporters to continue their protest peacefully and with patienceHe also cautioned them to guard the movement the way crops are guardedThe farmers are protesting against the the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Promotion and Facilitation Act 2020 the Farmers Empowerment and Protection Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities Amendment Act 2020This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever