Celebrating the repeal of agricultural laws, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said farmers will completely vacate their protest site at the Delhi border here by December 15 as their first group left for Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Was.
Meanwhile, the farmers here celebrated the end of the Agriculture Act by distributing sweets.
BKU national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said the government has scrapped its controversial agricultural laws and agreed to resolve other problems.
He said that a major part of Ghazipur border would be cleared on Sunday, though it would be completely cleared by December 15.
Tikait said that he would send off all the farmers and return home.
Meanwhile, farmers in Punjab and Haryana were accorded a rousing welcome on Saturday with sweets and garlands, and showered flower petals from a plane on their return journey to mark the “victory” of their protest against the central agricultural laws. which was later repealed.
Families of farmers honored farmers, including fellow villagers, with garlands, ‘laddoos’, ‘barfis’ and other sweets, visiting tractor trolleys along the Delhi-Karnal-Ambala and Delhi-Hisar national highways as well as other state highways.
Supporters of the farmers’ movement waved flags of various farmer bodies and showered petals on the farmers who had gathered along the highways to welcome the farmers.
Virender Sharma, Project Director (Haryana), National Highways Authority of India said that all the four toll plazas located between Chandigarh and Delhi will start functioning within two to three days.
The farmers had staged a ‘dharna’ at the toll plaza, forcing them not to work for more than a year.
On his return, farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal was given a warm welcome at the Shambhu border and congratulated the farmers for their “victory”.
I congratulate all Punjabis and countrymen. A big battle has been won…Thank you also to those who supported it (movement).”
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