Black Day: Protesting farmers hoist black flags, burn effigies of PM Modi

On the event of the completion of six months of the protests towards the farm payments, the protesting farmer organisations noticed ‘black day’ as we speak. Samkyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella physique of protesting unions,  had introduced the ‘black day’, which had bought the help of a number of non-NDA political events together with the Congress, TMC, SP, NCP, DMP and the left events.
The protestors hoisted black flags on the protest websites on the borders of Delhi, and in addition throughout Punjab. As a part of the protests, the farmer unions additionally bunt the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and so they had been seen wishing the loss of life of the PM.
At Singhu border, one of many main websites of the farmer protests, the protesters burnt an effigy of the PM, and so they had been heard chanting ‘Modi Mara, Modi Mara’ on the flames.
Large variety of protestors assembled at varied locations, utterly disregarding Covid-19 protocols. Barring a choose few, most protesters weren’t sporting masks, and none of them adopted social distancing norms whereas chanting slogans demanding to repeal the three farm legal guidelines.
The protestors out on the streets whilst lockdowns are imposed in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi to comprise the unfold of Covid-19 pandemic. Demonstrations, sloganeering and burning of effigies passed off on the protest websites at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders, the place farmers from the neighbouring states are tenting for the final six months. In Amritsar, farmers took out their tractors with black flags on the streets. Moreover, black flags had been hoisted on the homes in Punjab.

Today #FarmersProtests completes 6 months.#Farmers have been protesting since Nov 26 final 12 months towards the three farm legal guidelines handed by the Centre.BKU noticed ‘Black Day’ and burned the copies of the regulation and Modi’s effigy. BKU additionally wrote a letter to PM requesting to renew the dialogue pic.twitter.com/PIw7XoK54B— Shivangi Saxena (@shivangi441) May 26, 2021
Earlier, the farmer unions had deliberate a march to Delhi on the event of six months of the protests, which might have been a repeat of the Republic Day march. But later the unions determined towards large gathering, and introduced that black day will probably be noticed at varied current protest websites and different locations.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait stated, “We are also carrying the tricolour. It has been six months now but the government is not listening to us. So farmers are putting up black flags. It will be done peacefully.” He claimed that they’re following Covid protocols, and the protestors are usually not transferring from one place to a different. He stated that persons are placing up flags wherever they’re.
The Farmers have been protesting the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.