Crowds At Delhi Borders Thinning, But Protesters' Spirits Remain High
The Morning Standard|February 17, 2021
THE tents that had popped up on the service roads along the Delhi-Meerut expressway across the police barricades at Ghazipur are slowly getting dismantled.
Siddhanta Mishra & Harpreet Bajwa
Crowds At Delhi Borders Thinning, But Protesters' Spirits Remain High

The lines of tractors parked on roadsides are also getting shorter. The crowds gathered are thinning with every passing day.

With sowing season of the sugarcane crop commencing in western Uttar Pradesh and the movement against the three agri laws being taken to the interiors by farmer leaders who are holding Kisan panchayats in the rural parts of UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and other states, the hustle and bustle at Delhi’s borders is also getting quieter.

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