LIVE: All-party meet by Punjab CM demands withdrawal of Centre’s farm laws

By Marta Boettcher 6 years ago

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Enhanced security in the course of farmers’ ongoing protest from the new farm guidelines, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (PTI Image/Ravi Choudhary)(

Farmers’ protest Reside updates Day 69: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday warned the farmers’ agitation will not conclude unless of course authorities repeals the 3 newly enacted agriculture guidelines and it may perhaps go on till October. “Our slogan is ‘Kanoon Wapsi Nahi toh Ghar Wapasi Nahi‘. This agitation will not conclude before October, it will not conclusion whenever shortly,” mentioned Tikait when addressing a rally at Ghazipur border.

Stability preparations go on to be strengthened at the Delhi-UP border web page, which is galvanising farmers from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand times soon after an psychological attraction by Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait.

No big highway is now open for motion of cars and people today, which is proving to be a escalating problem for numerous passing the stretch. A part of the highway is studded with nails. Concertina wire is a new addition, also outlined by Tikait when addressing a packed group from the main phase.

“They have set these barbed wires, not us. They are not enabling people today to occur to Delhi. We are not the 1 blocking the roadways. If we block roadways, they inquire us to vacate, but no action is taken when the exact same is carried out by these security forces,” mentioned.

Drones have also been deployed to observe the protesters.

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been tenting at Delhi’s borders for months, searching for a repeal of the 3 central guidelines. They assert that the new guidelines will weaken the least aid price (MSP) system. But the Centre says the guidelines will only give farmers a lot more possibilities to sell their deliver.

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