Farmers protest Highlights: Agitation suspended after 378 days; 'ghar wapasi' from December 11

Welcoming the farmer unions' decision to suspend their protest, Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan on Thursday said it will allow the BJP to set its agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls around the works done by the party's governments both at the Centre and the state. "It is a matter of happiness not only for me but for all of us and that they (farmers) are going home satisfied with the actions of the government," Balyan told reporters outside Parliament.

Farmers protesting at Delhi's Singhu border have started removing their tents. They were also seen exchanging sweets indicating that the end of the agitation is not very far.

One of the ambulances and a police van, part of the convoy carrying the bodies of the Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper crash victims, met with an accident while on the way from Wellington to Sulur in Tamil Nadu. While the convoy of ambulances and security vehicles were travelling from Wellington to Sulur air base, the axle of a police vehicle broke. The van driver stopped the vehicle and in the process hit a wall on the roadside. Seven policemen suffered minor injuries and they were shifted to Mettupalayam government hospital. Some minutes later, one of the ambulances carrying the mortal remains met with a minor accident suffering small damages. The bodies in the ambulance were shifted to another ambulance and the vehicles proceeded towards Sulur airbase.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said that farmers will start vacating Delhi border points from December 11 and this may take some time.

Group Captain Varun Singh is still critical and has been moved by a vehicle ambulance (by road) to Sulur for further move to Command Hospital, Bangalore.

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Protesting farmers receive a letter from Govt of India, with promises of forming a committee on MSP and withdrawing cases against them immediately. "As far as the matter of compensation is concerned, UP and Haryana have given in-principle consent," it reads.

Farmers start removing tents from their protest site in Singhu on Delhi-Haryana.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha has announced to end the year-long protests against the Central government's farms. Although the laws were repealed last month, the farmers were protesting at several Delhi border points as they were demanding law on MSP, compensation for families of farmers who died, withdrawal of cases among others.

A five-member committee constituted by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) for dialogue with the government on the protesting farmers' remaining demands said farm unions are hopeful and are progressing towards a resolution. Talking to reporters after the committee's meeting, farmer leader Yudhvir Singh said that they discussed a fresh proposal received from the Centre.

The government on Wednesday told Parliament that information related to number of farmers who died during the protest at Delhi borders since last year is maintained by "respective state governments". Minister of State for home affairs Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that "police and public order are state subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. The information in this regard is maintained by the respective state governments."

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have been protesting at the borders of the national capital since November 26 last year to demand repeal of the three farm laws. On November 29, a bill was passed in Parliament to repeal the three contentious farm laws, one of the main demands of the protesting farmers. But the stalemate continues with the protesters demanding that the government fulfil their other demands that included a legal guarantee on MSP and withdrawal of cases against farmers.

Joginder Singh Ugrahan, said that the SKM's five-member Committee has to take a call about ending the agitation and any decision on this will be announced after the SKM meeting. “Our leaders have to take a call about lifting the Morcha(protest). We have several kilometres long convoy and it cannot be made to go all of a sudden and we will require to plan it properly. It may take days, maybe 4-5 days, if it happens,” Ugrahan said.

Yogendra Yadav said that Farmers' agitation has reached a decisive moment in the over year-long farmers' agitation against the three farm laws. “We have reached a decisive moment of this historic movement. A ray of hope has emerged at the end of the long tunnel,” Yadav, who is also a member of the SKM, said at Singhu Border.

The farmers' pending issues include surety on Minimum Support Price, withdrawal of the draft Electricity Amendments Bill, 2020/2021, withdrawal of criminal cases against farmers and compensation for the families of farmers who died during the year-long protest.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has said that their agitation will be called off on Thursday. The government has accepted farmers' all the pending demands.