The ongoing farmers’ protest against the Centre’s three farm laws has entered day 73 on Saturday. The protesting farmers held a three-hour-long countrywide road blockade. Several protestors were detained in Bengaluru and Hyderabad during the blockade. The government on Friday defended the farm laws in the Rajya Sabha despite the demands for cancellation from the opposition. In an open letter, 75 ex-civil servants criticised the government’s approach to the farmers’ agitation against the farm laws and said that such an approach can never bring a solution.