Protesting farmers at Shambhu border speak to Outlook where farmers are demanding a legal guarantee of MSP and the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver and no hike in electricity tariff. Currently, the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march is on hold till February 21 after the Centre proposed a new plan for the Minimum Support Price for crops.
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00:00 My name is Ferozpur, from Makhan, near Pakistan's Sarada district. I come to the protests to stay there.
00:13 The farmers want to take away our resources and make us laborers.
00:25 We don't allow these protests to go to Delhi.
00:37 What is the need to block the roads?
00:40 Is there a democracy on the roads?
00:43 There is no democracy in India.
00:46 There is a capitalistic system.
00:48 What do you say about the guarantee that the government has given you?
00:52 They give us a guarantee, but they don't give us a guarantee.
00:58 They give us a guarantee, but they don't give us a guarantee.
01:02 They buy onions from us and sell them for 50 rupees.
01:06 They sell them for 50 rupees.
01:09 They are giving us a guarantee for 5 years.
01:12 They sell us for a small amount of money.
01:22 We don't have a guarantee.
01:24 We want a guarantee for 5 years.
01:28 What will happen to us after 5 years?
01:31 We protest every day.
01:33 We don't want to protest.
01:35 We are helpless.
01:38 We have left our children on the roads.
01:42 We have left our homes.
01:44 We are sitting here in the paddy fields.
01:46 We are sitting here in the paddy fields.
01:48 We are sitting here in the paddy fields.
01:50 We are sitting here in the paddy fields.
01:52 We are sitting here in the paddy fields.