The sit-in Farmers’ Protest against the black laws has completed 6 months today 26th May 2021. It is the day the BJP government completes 7 years in power.
The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha has said that the farmers will observe it as a Black Day. While the organization has encouraged everyone to celebrate Buddha Purnima, it has also asked the protestors at all the protest sites to put up a black flag and burn the effigies of the ruling government.
The farmers have planned to sharpen the protest and have warned the government that they cannot be frightened or defeated. They have declared that they will not leave the Delhi borders until the government takes back all the three black farm laws.
On Sunday, 12 major political Indian parties including the Congress, JD(S), NCP, Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena, JMM, JKPA, Samajwadi Party, RJD, DMK, CPI, and CPI(M) had declared their support for this call for Black Day.
In a joint statement, the political parties said, “We extend our support to the call given by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to observe a countrywide protest on May 26, marking the completion of six months of the heroic peaceful Kisan struggle.”
“Repeal farm laws to protect lakhs, our Annadatas becoming victims of the pandemic so that they can continue to produce food to feed the Indian people,” they wrote in the statement.
On Saturday, the BKU president, Balbir Singh Rajewal, while addressing a press conference in Chandigarh gave this call to every section of the society to come forward and register their protest by installing a black flag on their houses, shops, vehicles, and establishments.
The farmer leaders have said that the BJP-led central government has often tried to turn the protests violent, but has failed time and again. They said that the Farmers are committed to truth, and hence, they will not quit until the farm laws are repealed.