Previously, five rounds of talks between the farmer unions and the government have failed to break the deadlock. “Thousands of farmers who are bearing the winter chill and have gathered at the borders are not here for a holiday. They want the people to believe that crores of people are responding to the call of the Left parties? He has now emerged as one of the most prominent faces of the farmer agitation against the three controversial agri-marketing legislations. While the government has attacked the Left parties for supporting and misusing the farmer protests for their own agenda, Mollah and the other farmer leaders have strongly refuted the charge.

Source: Hindustan Times December 27, 2020 13:54 UTC