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Scores of Karnal farmers head to Tikri; nationwide stir on May 26

“We’re headed with thousands of vehicles from Karnal. Every week we will take people from one district to the protest site in order to maintain gathering there,” Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) President Gurnam Singh said

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Women from Punjab and Haryana join the farmers protesting against new farm laws, at Tikri border, in New Delhi. File pic/AFP

Women from Punjab and Haryana join the farmers protesting against new farm laws, at Tikri border, in New Delhi. File pic/AFP

Scores of farmers from Karnal in Haryana on Sunday left for Tikri on the state’s border with Delhi and the site where farmers have been sitting in protest since last November, demanding a repeal of the Centre’s three agricultural laws.

“We’re headed with thousands of vehicles from Karnal. Every week we will take people from one district to the protest site in order to maintain gathering there,” Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) President Gurnam Singh said. “We are doing this to show the government that we are still awake and our protest has not lost steam,” he added.

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