Protesting Farmers Apologise To People Of Delhi For Causing Troubles To Them With Blockades

The ongoing protest by the farmers along the Delhi border is only getting stronger by each passing day as more and more join the demonstrations, braving the chilling winters of the national capital.

But it is undoubtedly causing some hardship for the residents of the national capital and adjoining areas, especially for those who have to travel for work as the borders continue to be blocked for weeks now.

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The farmers who have largely enjoyed the support of the masses have made it clear that they do not intend to cause troubles for the common people and have apologized for any inconvenience caused.

Distributed handbills with apologies

On Monday, the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, which is spearheading the protests at Delhi border points, distributed handbills to commuters on the Jaipur-Delhi Highway near Haryana-Rajasthan borders, where hundreds of farmers have been camping, to convey their apology, and also reiterate their demand for legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP).

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"Blocking roads, causing inconvenience to the public is not our aim," read their pamphlets. "We are sitting here under a compulsion. Yet we apologise with folded hands if our agitation has caused you any inconvenience," the pamphlet read.

They also asserted that the farmers do not want any "charity", but a fair price for their crops. They said they wanted to enter Delhi with this demand and present their view to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

'Farm laws not a gift'

"We are farmers. People also call us food-providers. The prime minister of the country says he has brought us the historic gift of three laws. We say this is not a gift but a punishment.

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"Please keep your gift with yourself. If you want to give us a gift, there should be a legal guarantee of fair price of our crops," read the pamphlets, distributed among people.

"We are empathetic towards the people of Delhi and all those people who are or would be facing problems due to our agitation but we are helpless and compelled on our end too because the demands we are fighting for today would have an integral role in the future. I would like to apologize to the people of Delhi that they would face problems due to this agitation but there is no other way else it would lead us to dangerous times," farmers leader Baldev Singh Sirsa told IANS.