Farmers protests: BKU members stay put at UP Gate despite government showing iron fist
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.
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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.
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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.
Two days after the tractor parade turned violent protest sites in Delhi s Singhu and Tikri borders witnessed a thin crowd on Thursday. The farmer unions said it was because the protesters, who had come to Delhi to participate in January 26 march, have returned home.
Additional police personnel were deployed at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders the three prime sites of Farmers protest in Delhi as a preventive measure taking into consideration, the violence that erupted on Republic Day and left 394 policemen injured and one protestor dead.
The Singhu border, one of the major protest sites that has been home to thousands of farmers for over two months, was noticeably less populated on Thursday than what it used to be before the Republic day, or even before that.