Two days after the Indian government agreed to all the demands of the farmer protesters, they began vacating the protest site at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghazipur.
In a video shared by news agency ANI, the farmer protesters were seen leaving Ghazipur in jubilation after holding the Centre to ransom for over a year. They were seen waving to the camera from their tractors and trucks and dancing to the beats of music.
At the Tikri border too, protesters ended their year-long agitation against the 3 farm laws.
The Singhu border reverberated with the music of bhajan. ANI reported, “Protesting farmers sing ‘bhajan’ at Singhu border before vacating the site to return home, following the announcement of the suspension of their year-long protest.”
The year-long protests by some farmer organisations against the three farm laws came to an end on December 9 after the union government agreed to all demands by them. After the three farm reform laws were withdrawn, the Modi government further gave in to the protests and agreed to consider the demand for a lawn on Minimum Support Price (MSP), after which the Samyukt Kisan Morcha decided to call off the protest.
It is notable that the protestors had set up semi-permanent camps and tents at the protest sites, apart from parking hundreds of trucks used as camps, where they were living for over a year. The Delhi government had provided them with utility connections to facilitate the protest camps. Reportedly, the farmers will take out victory marches on 11 December at the Singhu and Tikri protest sites to their homes. However, farmers have warned that they will resume the protests if their demands are not met.