At Delhi’s Ghazipur border, the scene on Wednesday morning was similar to a victorious army’s march from the battlefield to the barracks. The temporary accommodations of 378 days were brought down, bags and boxes loaded onto trucks, and farewells exchanged. India Today decGajendra Singh, the Sehora Block leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union that spearheaded the Ghazipur border protest, stood fondly next to a weather-beaten Ford tractor.

He proudly declared, “This was the first tractor that brought a group of farmers from Bijnor to the protest site here. And now, it is ready to take us back home after the government’s loss to the farmers on the 3 black farm laws.”ided to take the return trip with the farmers to understand the sentiments on the ground.