Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday urged farmers to droop their protest in opposition to farm legal guidelines amid the Covid-19 state of affairs, claiming that their actions to and from dharna websites have been spreading the an infection in villages.
While addressing the press convention, CM Khattar stated, “In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, I once again appeal to the farmer leaders to suspend their protests. The only goal, of all of us, should be to save the lives of people in the time of this crisis. There is nothing more than human life.”
Following these protests, the Chief Minister knowledgeable that in lots of villages, hotspots have emerged as a result of from there, individuals are frequently coming and going again from dharna websites.
“A month ago, I appealed to farmer leaders to suspend protest amid Covid-19 spread and can resume it after the situation is under control. Now, it has emerged that these dharnas have made a few villages hotspot as villagers travelled back and forth to protest sites”, stated Haryana CM ML Khattar.
“Covid Hotspots have been identified in rural areas. 8,000 teams of the Health Department will go door-to-door in the villages to conduct health check-ups of the people”, he stated.
“The government will provide free insurance of Rs 2 lakh on the death of a person up to the age of 50 from poor families. The premium of Beema Yojana will be deposited by the state government in their accounts and from the same account, the amount of premium will be deducted”, Khattar stated.
Meanwhile, in wake of the pandemic, the Haryana authorities on May 10 introduced a lockdown within the state until May 17.
The farmers have been protesting at completely different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 final 12 months in opposition to the farm legal guidelines handed by the Centre.
They have been protesting in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines: Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020.
