URL copied
Farmers protest: 86 police personnel injured in violence during tractor parade, says Delhi Police
Farmers reneged on their commitment made during talks between Sanyukt Kisan Morcha and Delhi Police that they would carry out a peaceful protest on the agreed routes, adding that over 300 police personnel were injured in violence across the city, said Delhi Police. In a statement, the police also claimed it did all due diligence in following the conditions for the rally, but the protesters began their march much ahead of the scheduled time and extensive damage to public property was caused during the violence by them.
Farmers' tractor rally January 26: Groups of protesting farmers camping at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur border points of New Delhi broke police barricades on Tuesday morning to force their way into the city, much ahead of the time they were granted permission by Delhi Police for their tractor parade. Farmers at Delhi's three protest sites are taking out a massive tractor rally against the farm laws. The Delhi Police on Monday gave a no-objection certificate (NOC) to the protesting farmer unions for their proposed Republic Day tractor parade with 37 conditions, including capping the number of participants and allocating a fixed time slot.
The BKU group at Ghazipur said it wanted the parade to go down NH-9 and take a U-turn from Akshardham back towards Anand Vihar and from there to the Apsara border
GHAZIABAD: Farmers’ outfits protesting at the UP-Delhi borders, including several factions of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) pressed for a route change to their Republic Day tractor parade all of Monday and met several police and senior local administration officials to be allowed to go up to Akshardham.
The demand took officials by surprise because the parade routes from the Chilla and Ghazipur borders, which the outfits sought a change to, were finalised on Sunday after talks with Delhi Police. However, through Monday, representatives of the unions insisted on taking the tractors towards Akshardham from Ghazipur and Chilla. The approved route from Ghazipur is towards the Apsara border and Hapur Road.
URL copied
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweets as farmers go on rampage in Delhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been supporting the farmers protest against the Centre s farm laws, on Tuesday denounced the violence in Delhi by protestors. Gandhi, however, once again appealed that the agri laws should be taken back for country s sake.
 Violence is not the solution to any problem. Irrespective of who gets hurt, it is the country which will suffer. Take back the anti-agriculture law for the benefit of the country! the former Congress president sain in his Hindi tweet.Â
Gandhi s statement came shortly after thousand of protestors barged into the Red Fort premises shouting slogan. Television images showed an unruly crowd at the Red Fort hoisting flags.
Farmers Protests Live updates: In a video posted on Facebook, actor Deep Sidhu said protesters hould not be given any communal colour or dubbed as fundamentalists or hardliners. “To symbolically register our protest against the new farm legislations, we put up Nishan Sahib and a farmer flag and also raised a slogan of Kisan Mazdoor Ekta,” he said Watch LIVE News, Latest Updates, Live blog, Highlights and Live coverage online at firstpost.com.