On completion of seven months of their protest at Delhi borders in opposition to three agricultural legal guidelines, farm leaders on Saturday staged a protest exterior Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s residence amid heavy police presence. While the protesters claimed that they have been detained by the police and launched shortly after, the police denied this and mentioned that they have been merely faraway from the spot.
As the farmers marched in the direction of the capital through the day, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) restricted motion at a few of their stations. “As advised by Delhi Police, due to security reasons, three metro stations of Yellow Line, University, Civil Line and Vidhan Sabha will remain closed for public on Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm,” DMRC mentioned in an announcement.
The farmer was adamant on assembly the LG and personally handing over a memorandum addressed to the President, however was advised that he couldn’t meet him resulting from well being causes. The memorandum ready by the United Kisan Morcha, urging the President to accede to their calls for, states: “Through this memorandum, we carry to you the anguish, resentment of crores of farmer households of the nation. We hope that you’ll instruct the central authorities to just accept the reliable calls for of the farmers’ motion, repeal three anti-farmer legal guidelines and enact a regulation that can assure remunerative MSP at C2+50% for all farmers. This just isn’t solely a motion to save lots of the nation’s agriculture and farmers, however it is usually a motion to save lots of the democracy of our nation.
It additional states that the federal government just isn’t listening to “Mann Ki Baat” and is just specializing in the corporates. Yudhveer Singh, a farmer chief who alleged that he was detained, claimed: “The police beat us up. We were taken to Wazirabad Police Lines. Our demand was very simple. When we came to know that LG was unwell, we cooperated and said that we can hold a video conference… The administration eventually arranged a virtual meeting and we submitted our demands to the LG office.”
A senior police officer from the northern district mentioned: “They had gone to submit a memorandum which was accepted by the secretaries/officers, however then a gaggle of protesters began arguing that they wished to fulfill the LG. Since the memorandum had already been acquired, they weren’t allowed however they continued to protest. The police eliminated them and despatched them to Wazirabad. After this, the farmers interacted with the LG over a video name. No one was taken into custody.”
Hundreds of farmers from Punjab had reached Delhi’s Singhu border on 26 November final 12 months. As farmer leaders mentioned they marked June 26 as “Save Agriculture, Save Democracy” day, protests are going down in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jharkhand and Karnataka.
Hundreds of farmers from totally different components of western UP joined the protest below the management of Rakesh Tikait of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh on the Ghazipur border. During the day, as information of Tikait’s arrest began doing the rounds on social media, Delhi Police instantly clarified that the report was pretend and mentioned that motion can be taken in opposition to these spreading such information.
In Singhu, round 70-80 folks gathered on the principle stage to listen to the speech. “Seven months is still short; We can stay here till 2024. It is just the trailer,” mentioned Manjeet, a farmer from Bathinda.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
