COVID-19 curbs won’t stop us, say farmers

“We have altered our schedules to ensure we travel during the day and avoid curfew hours”

Despite a spike in COVID-19 cases and imposition of curbs across many States, protesting farmers at the Singhu border said they were determined to continue with their movement. Several protesters who have been camping at the borders for over four months now said on Wednesday that farmers had overcome the fear of the virus and they had altered their rotation schedules to ensure they travelled during the day and avoided the curfew hours. “We will continue our movement at the same pace,” said Sukhjeet Singh Sidhu, a farmer from Punjab’s Patiala district. “Neither the night curfew nor the ban on political gatherings will have any effect on our movement. We will continue with the rotation system that we have evolved and nothing can stop us from continuing our protest at this point.”