The idea to clang thaalis and clapping was introduced by PM Modi during coronavirus lockdown to felicitate the frontline workers battling coronavirus.
While Prime Minister’s monthly radio address Mann ki Baat was broadcast this morning, farmers protesting against the Centre’s new farm sector laws clanged thalis and raised slogans. The demonstration took place e in Rohtak in BJP-ruled Haryana.
The protest by clanging thaalis during PM Modi’s address was announced last Sunday. Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav, making the announcement, said: “On December 27 when the Prime Minister gives his Mann Ki Baat radio address, farmers will say ‘we are tired of listening to your Mann ki Baat, when will you listen to our Mann ki Baat?’ So we will bang utensils so that the noise of his Mann ki Baat doesn’t reach us.”
The idea to clang thaalis and clapping was introduced by PM Modi during coronavirus lockdown to felicitate the frontline workers battling coronavirus. PM Modi referred to it in today’s Mann ki Baat.
PM Modi, citing letters written to him by the people, said: “In most of the letters people have commended the country’s capabilities and the collective strength of the countrymen. When a novel experiment such as Janta curfew became an inspiration for the whole world, when the country felicitated our corona warrior unitedly with Thali-taali, the applause and the reverberating chime of plates… people have sent in reminiscences of that too.”
The farmers’ protest on the borders of Delhi is going on for over a month now. Thousands of farmers gathered there, mostly from Haryana and Punjab, have demanded repeal of three agriculture laws brought in by the Modi government.
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