Attending a function organised by adivasi activists in Palghar district on Friday, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said that the agitation at the Delhi border would continue despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of repealing the Centre’s farm laws. This comes while political leaders and activists in Maharashtra welcomed the farmers’ victory.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that the victory was a display of people’s united strength. Nationalist Congress Party president and former union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said the country would never forget the year-long struggle that was inflicted on the farmers by the Modi government, but urged them to end the agitation ahead of winter. Political leaders and activists also remembered the farmers who died in the agitations across the country over the past 12 months.