NEW DELHI, 5 March, 2021 (TON): The Farmers Union plans to block major expressway outside the New Delhi on Saturday, marking 100^th day of the campaign.

Several thousands of the famers have been camped outside Delhi since December demanding the PM to repeal the three farm laws that open up the country's agriculture markets to private companies that will make the farmers vulnerable, they believe.

Union leaders said on Friday farmers from the northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh plan to stop all traffic on the six-lane Western Peripheral Expressway that forms a ring outside New Delhi for up to five hours.

"We believe that after these 100 days, our movement will put a moral pressure on the government to accede to our demands, because the weather will also worsen," said Darshan Pal, spokesperson for the farmer unions' coalition Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), or United Farmers’ Front. "It will weaken the government, which will have to sit down with us to talk again."

"The laws are like a death warrant to us," he said. "We are prepared for the long haul." he said.

The government says the reforms will bring investment to the antiquated agriculture markets, and that new entrants would operate alongside government-regulated market yards, where farmers are assured of a minimum price for their produce.