Protesting farmers burn copies of farm laws to mark the festival of Lohri

Several bonfires were lined up at the Delhi-Haryana border stretch, the nerve centre of the farmers' agitation

Protesting farmers on Wednesday burnt copies of the three farm laws to mark the festival of Lohri, a day after the Supreme Court had stayed their implementation, even as Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala said the government is in favour of continuing talks with the protesting farmer groups as it believes a solution can be found only through dialogue.

Some 100,000 copies of the laws were burnt at the Singhu border, said Paramjeet Singh, leader of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a group spearheading the protests.

Lohri is widely celebrated in Punjab and Haryana to mark the harvesting of Rabi crops.