Burari is an open jail: protesting Farmers

Farmers, who have marched from Punjab to Delhi protesting against the government's farm policy, have sat on the Haryana-Delhi border on the 5th day. They Don't want to come to Burari's Nirankari Saint Samagam Maidan. They are calling it an open prison. After all, why do they think so?

The farmers say that only forty to fifty thousand farmers can gather in this ground. They say that even if they keep demonstrating for months, it will not cause any kind of problem for the government because it is on one side of the city. The government will surround this ground through police and security forces and they will not be able to do anything special.

They say that they had demanded a place in Jantar Mantar or Ramlila Maidan. Both these places fall in central Delhi and near Parliament House. They think that their voices will reach the power center quickly from there.

Asked why they want to protest at the border, a farmer said that it is on the national highway. Thousands of vehicles pass through it daily. The supply of fruits-vegetables-milk etc. to Delhi is also through this route. He says that when basic services are interrupted, then the government will listen to them.

The Delhi Government and the Aam Aadmi Party have made all arrangements for the convenience of the farmers in Sant Samagam Maidan of Burari. Party workers led by Burari MLA Sanjeev Jha have kept a watch on the situation.

Their only concern is that the farmers should not have any problem. Farmers who have come from UP and Haryana have gathered here. The number of farmers from Punjab is negligible here.