Farmers paid a very heavy price to get the farm laws repealed; hundreds perished, many by suicide

As it was widely expected – though no one had any clue about its actual timing – the Modi govt has announced its intention to repeal the three contentious farm laws against which farmers have been protesting for the last one year, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself appearing on television on Friday morning to declare the same.Braving hot summers and bone-chilling cold, rain, death and defamation, besides intimidation, lakhs of farmers stayed put at three protest sites at Delhi’s borders since last November.Hundreds of them died, thousands left their homes to live under the open sky and lakhs of them travelled on their own expense to reach Delhi from all corners of the country to support the agitation.However, the Modi government did not relent. It bent down only when they smelt imminent defeat in the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and other crucial states.



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