All roads led to Delhi for a long march of tractor trolleys moving bumper to bumper from various directions in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on Sunday, lending momentum to the planned Republic Day farmers’ rally in the national capital in more ways than one. On stretches of the NH-44 between Haryana’s Ambala and Sonipat, there were tractors as far as the eye could travel.
Songs of protest sung by popular Punjab singers blared from speakers as flags of farmers’ unions fluttered atop tractors headed for the Singhu-Kundli and Tikri borders. Unlike November 26 and 27, when Haryana police had put up barricades at various locations to stop the surge of farmers proceeding towards Delhi. On Sunday, the police’s role was restricted to regulating traffic at bottlenecks created by convoys of tractors.
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.
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All India Kisan Sabha vice president and former Rajasthan MLA Amra Ram. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.
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Jaipur: To extend support to the farmers’ stir in Delhi, farmers from Rajasthan are staging protests at Jaisinghpur Khera, near Shahjahanpur in Alwar district, at the Rajasthan-Haryana border, under the leadership of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS).
Kisan Mahapanchayat and Kisan Sangharsh Samiti are among several farmers’ groups actively participating in the protests in Rajasthan. Protestors, mostly farmers across the state, have blocked roads, tolls, and burnt effigies of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to register their opposition against the farm laws.