(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, MAY 24 - Thousands of farmers are on the move to Delhi from the states of Haryana and Punjab to participate in what has been defined as the "Black Day", next May 26.
The demonstration, which will mark the sixth month since the start of the protest against the reform of the agrarian sector, was announced by Gurnam Singh Charunil leader of the Bharatiya KisanUnion (BKU) the largest Indian peasant organization, as a show of strength that will challenge the government in the whole country, despite the restrictions imposed by Covid 19.
Twelve opposition parties, the largest, joined the demonstration, signing a document addressed yesterday to Premier Modi: among them Sonia Gandhi, the governor of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, and the governors of Tamil Nadu, (MKStalin), Maharashtra (Uddav Thakeray), Jharkhand (Hernant Soru), in addition to the Kashmiri leader Farooq Abdullah.
The farmers argue that the new laws, which liberalize the market, will leave them at the mercy of the large private groups will dictate the terms at the time of purchase and that the ten-year system of safeguards that guaranteed a fixed minimum price for their products will be destroyed.
The peasants began one of the largest protests ever held in the country last November, with some camps next to the capital's main highway entrances, bordering the states of Punjab and Haryana. (HANDLE).