Vindicated: Farmers stay put, say SKM has final call on next step

Even as the Delhi Police’s public exercise of removing the extravagant layers of barricading on border protest sites where farmers have been agitating against the three farm laws for nearly a year, farmer leaders called out the police for not removing all barricading from the protest sites, said that this was a sign of the police “correcting their mistake” and most importantly reveled in the knowledge that they had been vindicated with regards to who was actually blocking the roads in Ghazipur, Tikri, and Singh.

After the Delhi Police removed the last of the boulders, barricades, and concertina wires from the Ghazipur border protest site on the NH-9, farmer leaders reiterated that they were not the ones blocking roads and said that the Samyukt Kisan Morcha would decide the further course of the protests from hereon.

Significantly, union leaders said that they would make way for traffic to move through the areas in the coming days but factions such as the Bharatiya Kisan Union have insisted that the protests will grow further at the border sites in the coming days.