The ongoing protest by the farmers around the Delhi border is only getting grave with each passing day as more and more people come in support of the farmers. The farmers have been protesting sitting in the chilling winters of the national capital.

But it is also causing a lot of hardship for the residents of Delhi/NCR, mostly people who have to travel for work as the borders continue to be blocked for weeks now. The farmers expressed how they appreciate the support of the people and also said that they don’t intend to disrupt the life of the common people and have apologized for the inconvenience caused.

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The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha distributed pamphlets on Monday to commuters who were driving on the Jaipur-Delhi highway near Haryana-Rajasthan borders where hundreds of farmers have been staying put to protest and also reiterate their demand for a legal guarantee for MSP.

The handbill given to the commuters read as, “Blocking roads, causing inconvenience to the public is not our aim. We are sitting here under a compulsion. Yet we apologize with folded hands if our agitation has caused you any inconvenience.”

It also said that they don’t want any charity and all they want is a fair price for their crops. They expressed that they want to enter Delhi and put their demands in front of Narendra Modi.

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The pamphlet also said, “Please keep your gift with yourself. If you want to give us a gift, there should be a legal guarantee of the fair price of our crop.”

In an interview with IANS, farmers leader, Baldev Singh Sirsa said, "We are empathetic towards the people of Delhi and all those people who are or would be facing problems due to our agitation but we are helpless and compelled on our end too because the demands we are fighting for today would have an integral role in the future. I would like to apologize to the people of Delhi that they would face problems due to this agitation but there is no other way else it would lead us to dangerous times.”

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