Farmers Protest Live Updates: Farmers to meet Delhi Police shortly to decide tractor rally route
Live updates from the farmers’ protest: The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee said on Monday they will meet with Delhi police at 10 a.m. M. To decide the time and route of their concentration of tractors, as we were not satisfied with the type of permit that they were granted. “We believe that the type of permit that we have been granted for the tractor rally is not correct. We wanted to go to the old ring-road, but they gave us conditional permission and assigned us the part that corresponds largely to Haryana, “Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra told the news agency. AND ME.
“All we say is that we don’t want to go there, we just want to go to Ring Road. We will have a meeting with the police at 10 am today about this. Then it will be decided where we will finally go. After the meeting, we will decide the time and route of the rally, “he added.
On Sunday, Delhi police allowed farmers’ tractors to marching through the city on Republic Day and ended three routes After a week of meetings between farmers and senior police officers, proper security arrangements were put in place. Haryana authorities have also advised people to avoid traveling to the national capital.
At a press conference, Special CP (Intelligence) Dependra Pathak said: “We had talks with the leaders of the Bharatiya Kisan Union and there is an agreement that they will hold their march after the Republic Day celebrations on Rajpath. There should be no disturbances during the parade. We will provide them with adequate security; their march will be peaceful and they will return to the border at the end ”.
The tractor rally will take place from Delhi’s three border points: Singhu, Tikri, and Ghaziabad.
Meanwhile, more than 6,000 farmers from 21 districts of Maharashtra arrived in Mumbai in a convoy of 500 vehicles to begin their three-day sit-in at Azad Maidan in solidarity with farmers protesting on the Delhi border. High-level leaders crossing party lines, including CPN chief Sharad Pawar, will address the meeting on Monday. Farmers have gathered under the banner of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Maharashtra unit.
The rally is part of the call by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), who is leading the Delhi protests, to intensify and expand the struggle from January 23 to 26. More farmers are expected to join the meeting on Monday.
Farmers who participated in the vehicle rally gathered at Azad Maidan on January 24 and started a three-day sit-in. On January 25, a mass demonstration will be held to Raj Bhavan and a memorandum will be sent to the governor. On January 26, the Republic Day flag will be raised at Azad Maidan.
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CPN Chief Sharad Pawar to Address Farmers’ Rally at Azad Maidan in Mumbai on Monday; Delhi police mapped out routes for the Republic Day tractor parade. Follow this space for the latest updates.
Tractors on the Ghazipur border for the farmers’ Republic Day march in New Delhi on Saturday. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)
Haryana police said there would be disruptions in vehicle movement on the national highway from Karnal and Rohtak to Delhi from January 25 to 27.
“Traffic on the KMP-KGP highway will also be affected and interchanges at Kundli, Assaudha, and Badli will not be accessible to traffic movement on these dates,” a police notice said. “Therefore, all travelers are advised not to use these routes on these dates to avoid any inconvenience,” he added.
Peasant leaders had previously said that a group of 500 tractor-carts left Amritsar and several other lots from Phagwara, Hoshiarpur, and elsewhere in Punjab also made their way to the national capital to participate in the tractor parade.
They also called on the participants in the Republic Day tractor march to carry enough rations for 24 hours and to ensure that the demonstration is peaceful.
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