Updated On: 21 March, 2023 07:23 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
The farmers converged under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a groupof farmer unions that led around over a yearlong agitation at Delhi borders and forced the Centre to withdraw the farm laws.

A farmer shows hailstone after his crop was damaged by heavy storm, in Jaipur, on Monday. Farmers have also demanded compensation for crop damage due to hailstorm and unseasonal rain across India. Pic/PTI
Just five kilometres away from Parliament, thousands of farmers gathered at the iconic Ramlila Maidan here on Monday demanding that the Centre fulfil the “written commitments” it made to them in December 2021.
The farmers converged under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a group of farmer unions that led around over a yearlong agitation at Delhi borders and forced the Centre to withdraw the farm laws.