Farmers’ protests | Farmers block roads, toll plazas to protest against farm laws
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Three-hour “chakka jam” hits Punjab, Haryana most; scattered impact in other States
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Farmers block a road during their ‘chakka jam’ protest in Bathinda on February 6, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Three-hour “chakka jam” hits Punjab, Haryana most; scattered impact in other States
The three-hour “chakka jam” or road blockade protest called by farm unions on Saturday went off smoothly, despite about 60 people being detained at a solidarity protest site within Delhi. There were also reports from some unions of detentions at Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka. With fears of Republic Day-style chaos and violence looming in the background, security forces had stepped up deployment within the capital, and farm unions called off protests in U.P. and Uttarakhand.
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Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh government started to clear the Ghazipur agitation site. Look out circulars are used by immigration officials to prevent accused persons from leaving the country.
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Farmers at Ghazipur border during their ongoing agitation against Centres farm reform laws in New Delhi Thursday. (Photo | Parveen Negi/EPS)
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NEW DELHI: Proceeding swiftly in the Republic Day violence case, the Delhi Police on Thursday issued 44 look-out circulars (LOC) against three dozen farm union leaders. They have been asked to join the probe by January 31 and directed to bring their passports along.
The Delhi Police will issue look out circulars against farmer leaders who have been named in FIRs registered in connection with the violence that broke out during farmers tractor parade in the city on Republic Day, officials said on Thursday. The farmer leaders who have been named in the FIRs will also be asked to surrender their passports, they said. The decisions were taken following a series of meetings chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah since Tuesday when the large scale violence took place in the national capital during the farmers tractor rally, an official from the Home Ministry said.
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1 Security personnel at Singhu border during the ongoing farmers agitation against Centreâs farm reform laws, in New Delhi. PTI
New Delhi, January 28
Additional police personnel were deployed on Thursday at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders the three main sites where farmers have been protesting the Centre’s new farm laws as a preventive measure in the view of the violence on Republic Day that left 394 policemen injured and one protester dead.
Meanwhile, the crowd at the protest sites in Delhi’s Singhu and Tikri borders was visibly thin on Thursday two days after the tractor parade turned violent, even though the farmer unions said it was because the protesters, who had come to the national capital to take part in January 26 march, have returned home.