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Tributes paid to martyred farmers in Delhi

Several sympathisers of the ongoing farmers movement in support of their demands for repeal of three agricultural laws and enactment of a new law on MSP have today paid their respectful heartfelt tributes to the deceased Sikh priest Sant Ram Singh and other farmers who had laid down their precious lives while struggling hard during the last twenty days of their incessant protests and sit ins ( Dharnas) in Punjab and Delhi borders braving the inclement weather and chilly cold including confronting teargas attack etc.

The struggling peasent sympathisers and supporters staged their candle March while paying their homage to the martyrs of the ongoing Kisan movement at Lakshmi Nagar , transyamuna also raising slogans like Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, Kisaanon ke Sammaan mein, hum sab hain maidaan mein ( In honour of the struggling farmers, we are with them on the ground).

While the candle March cum protest was in progress hundreds of the local populace also joined them to express their tributes to the martyred and the struggling farmers at various points of Delhi border. Prominent amongst those who participated in this candle March were : renowned social activist and journalist Vijay Shankar Chaturvedi, Hari Dutt Sharma, Rajesh Pandey, Pulkit Chaturvedi, Ashok Sharma, Ajay Nagpal, Rajesh Khindri, Amit Mishra, Sanjiv Chouhan etc. There were good number of youths, senior citizens and women participants in this candle March cum protest at Lakshmi Nagar.

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Sunil Negi

Sunil Negi is a senior journalist and president of Uttarakhand Journalists Forum ( Regd). He usually writes on socio political subjects and have been contributing articles in print media for the last several years. Mr. Sunil Negi had been felicitated by All India Achievers conference's Pride of India and excellence awards apart from several other recognitions. He has translated a book on ecological disaster of Uttarakhand of June 2013 and edited and published two editions of Uttaranchal's Who's Who.

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