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Farmers end their year-long agitation, will vacate protest sites on Dec 11

NEW DELHI: The 40 farmers unions which are organised under the umbrella of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), today announced that they will be suspending their year-long farmers' movement against three contentious farm laws and other demands and announced that farmers will go back home on December 11 from Delhi's borders.

The decision was taken by the farm unions after the SKM, received a central government signed letter where it agreed to consider their pending demands, including withdrawal of cases against farmers and form a committee on minimum support price (MSP) which was among their main demands apart from the three contentious farm laws which have now been scrapped. 

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Joginder Ugrahan confirmed that the protest will be called off after the formal letter with a proposal from the government was received which included the unconditional withdrawal of all police cases lodged against protesters during the agitation.

SKM leader and the face of the agitation Rakesh Tikait said that farmers who have been protesting for over 15 months have planned a Fateh March (victory march) at Singhu and Tikri protest sites on Delhi's borders on December 11 around 9 am, after which they will begin to leave from the various protest sites.

Yogendra Yadav, president of Swaraj India party said that the farmers wanted to celebrate their success tomorrow itself ie on December 10 but have postponed it to December 11 in view of the tragedy yesterday in which India's Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others where 13 people including were killed in an Indian Air Force chopper crash.

The farmer leaders said that they have suspended the agitation and would review the situation in a months time. Ugrahan said, ""We have decided to suspend our agitation. We will hold a review meeting on January 15 and if the government does not fulfil its promises we may even decide to resume our agitation."

The protests began on November 25, 2020, with thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, marching into the capital Delhi demanding the repeal of three contentious legislation, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020; and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 along with other demands like MSP guarantee.

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