New Delhi: The Kisan Sansad, the protesting farmers’ sit-in at Jantar Mantar, began on Thursday with a two-minute silence in memory of those who lost their lives during the eight-month-long agitation. Six leaders were nominated the ‘speaker’ and ‘deputy speakers’ of the session, while others sat as members of the farmers’ parliament to discuss the three farm laws they are campaigning to have repealed, among them the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Bypass Act, 2020.
Their sirens blaring, police escorts and a pilot car led two buses filled with the protestors to the Kisan Sansad site at 12.10pm. Another arrived at 12.26pm and the last at 12:38pm. The ‘parliamentary session’ was to have started earlier, but the 200 farmers permitted to participate daily at Jantar Mantar alleged they were delayed by the cops. “It was only after raising slogans to protest the 45-minute delay that we were able to reach Jantar Mantar,” said Raminder Singh Patiala, member of the legal cell of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella body of farmers’ unions. “Our Kisan Sansad will run concurrently with the Indian Parliament’s monsoon session till August 13.”
This story is from the July 23, 2021 edition of The Times of India Delhi.
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