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Sewa Ram from Morena in Madhya Pradesh lost his standing crop to low rains in the past two years, but didn’t get a single penny from the government as compensation. This made him and his fellow villagers, who suffered the same fate, join the ongoing farmers’ agitation, hoping to put pressure on the government to waive farm loans. 

Ram was among the hundreds who gathered in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on the conclusion of a 13-day-long farmers’ yatra, which started from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh (the place where six farmers were shot dead in police firing last month). 

The yatra passed