New Delhi: Farmers staged Bharat Bandh on Monday protest against the three farm laws was successful said the BKS leader Tikait. The 10 hour long Bharat Bandh blocked several roads, highways and trains being cancelled, thousands stranded for hours in parts of the country, particularly in the North.

Tikait in a statement said that some people may have faced inconvenience due to the Bharat Bandh today, which is natural, but they should forget it for just one day in the name of farmers. The farmers have been on the roads, leaving their houses for the last 10 months, but the blind and deaf government neither sees nor hears anything.

He said in a democracy, there is no other option but to protest and warned the Government that the farmers would go back to their homes only after the laws are abolished.

It is an appeal to our Government that the problems of the farmers should be resolved as soon as possible, he added. He thanked farmers and workers across the country for making the Bharat Bandh a complete success and said the movement will continue till the three laws are repealed and a legal guarantee provided by the Centre on the MSP on crops. The Bharat Bandh called by the SKM today has been a complete success. Farmers across the country came out on the roads and expressed their anger against the laws. At thousands of places, people came out in support of the bandh and staged demonstrations. Besides farmers, labourers, traders, private workers, trade unions and political parties extended support to the bandh across the country, he said.

He also hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the Rs 25 per quintal hike on the MSP for sugarcane announced last week and said a separate agitation would be carried out by the BKU over the issue in the coming days. Tikait is leading hundreds of anti farm law protesters and BKU supporters at Ghazipur on the Delhi Uttar Pradesh border, one of the three key protest sites on the outskirts of the Delhi since November last year.

He said people from not just three states (Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh) but across the country participated in the shutdown called by the SKM, an umbrella body of over 40 farmer unions leading the protests against the three contentious laws, from 6 am to 4 pm and no violence was reported from anywhere.