Farmers protest: SKM to hold ‘Black Day’ agitation tomorrow, ‘mahapanchayat’ in Delhi on March 14
The SKM will also organise an all-India tractor rally on February 26.
Farmers from Tamil Nadu on Monday protested outside the Prime Minister’s office in Delhi’s North Block after they were not allowed to meet Narendra Modi to discuss the drought-relief fund. Farmers from the state have been protesting at Jantar Mantar for the past month.
The protesters who were assured of a meeting with the PM on Monday, were suddenly asked to submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister's office.
While they were being escorted out of the PMO by the police in a vehicle, one of them jumped out of the van and took off his clothes on the road. Soon others also joined him in a similar protest. The agitators were later arrested.
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The BJP said that they condemned the naked protest and alleged that they were doing it at the behest of the Tamil Nadu government.
Speaking to the Statesman, a protester said, “When you are left with no options, no one listens to you, this is what you resort to. Our naked protest in the reflection of our pathetic state.”
The protestors have been using different methods to draw attention to their demands. They have human skulls to protest, have shaved their moustaches, shaved their heads, held dead animals like rat and snakes in their mouths. The farmers have been demanding a fund of Rs.40,000 crore as drought fund, pension for the farmers who do not work in the fields anymore and waiving all their loans.
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