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Chennai: Samkyukta Kisan Morcha an umbrella body of protesting farmers' unions accused Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar of 'insulting' farmers by his remarks that mere gathering of a crowd does not lead to revocation of the three farm laws. “Today farmers are getting support pouring in from all sides nationally and internationally. The protestors are not a crowd but our annadatas thanks to whom we are all alive today including people in the government. The party in power collected votes from this very crowd and this sort of insulting attitude towards our farmers is highly condemnable” the SKM said in statement. It also stated “Tomar insulted the farmers' movement by saying that laws cannot be repealed by collecting a crowd”..