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As Authorities Ordered to Clear Sites of Farmers Protests, BKU s Tikait Brothers Disagree Over Next Move
Ghaziabad DM Ajay Shankar Pandey accompanied by police visits the site of farmers protest at Delhi-Ghazipur border on Thursday. (PTI)
As numbers have dwindled at protest sites across borders adjoining Delhi, the Ghaziabad and Uttar Pradesh government have asked farmers to vacate the areas.
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Two days after the events of Republic Day that saw the farmers tractor rally against Centre s farm laws turn violent, tensions are still brewing high in Delhi. As numbers have dwindled at protest sites across borders adjoining Delhi, the Ghaziabad and Uttar Pradesh government have asked farmers to vacate the areas.
Indian agricultural workers demonstrate against anti-farmer laws
Women show their support for the farmers
Agricultural workers across India will protest today and tomorrow, January 7 and 8, in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of farmers against the contentious farm laws.
As part of the call given by All India Agricultural Workers’ Union (AIAWU), president A Vijayaraghavan and general secretary B Venkat have appealed to the agricultural workers to hold protests at the village, panchayat, block and district levels as well as at the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme workplaces.
Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and recently joined by farmers from Maharashtra, have been protesting against the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act at five borders of the natio
Farmers to take out ‘tractor rally’ today as R-Day rehearsal
SP Rewari Abhishek Jorwal said forces have been in Dharuhera and other protesting sites following Sunday’s clash between a group of farmers and the police.
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Farmers on tractors shout slogans at the Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Monday during their protest against the Centre’s new farm laws. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS)
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CHANDIGARH: Farmers’ unions on Wednesday said they will hold a march with 4,000-5,000 tractors on the Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways on Thursday as a “rehearsal” for January 26, even as the Haryana Police placed barricades at four locations on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to stop protesters from entering the national capital, resulting in blockages on the national highway.
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1 The Gurugram police have also set up barricades at Kapdiwas Chowk (Gurugram-Rewari border) after the clash between farmers and the police on Sunday. PTI file
Gurugram, January 6
As the farmers demonstration is intensifying day-by-day, Haryana Police have installed barricades at four locations on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to stop farmers from entering the national capital, resulting in blockages on the national highway.
These four key locations include Kapdiwas Chowk in Gurugram, Masani barrage in Dharuhera, Sangwari village in Rewari and Jaisinghpur Khera (Haryana-Rajasthan border) on the Delhi-Jaipur national highway.
With these blockages which resulted in traffic diversions on the expressway, the commuters going from Jaipur to Delhi and Delhi to Jaipur have to cover an extra 100 km to reach their destination.
Haryana Police uses water cannons, teargas shells in Rewari to halt farmers’ advance to Delhi
Haryana Police uses water cannons, teargas shells in Rewari to halt farmers’ advance to Delhi
Police had to resort to using teargas shells and water cannons at Masani bridge in Haryana s Rewari district on Sunday to halt a group of agitating farmers marching towards Delhi.
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Rewari Police firing teargas shells at Masani barrage on Sunday (Photo Credits: PTI)
Farmers marching towards Delhi were met with teargas canisters in Haryana s Rewari district on Sunday evening. The incident comes less than 24 hours ahead of the seventh round of talks between the central government and farmers unions demanding the repeal of the three new farm laws and legal guarantee for MSP.