“The committee’s finding will have to be followed. Meanwhile, the protest will continue in a non-violent fashion and cannot endanger life or property. You cannot instigate violence too by police,” the bench said in oral observations. Although the court did not pass any specific order, it said experts such as journalist P Sainath and agricultural unions like the Bharatiya Kisan Union (one of the factions is a petitioner) could be members of the committee.
Solicitor General Mehta submitted to the court that other farmer unions were not present in court and may not share the views of the BKU.
Phone, tractor parts in demand, some shops see sales bump
Situated at the GT Karnal Highway, Singhu border is a hub of shops that sell automobile parts, restaurants and petrol pumps. Since the blockade, many shops have remained shut, while some started opening a week into the stir. December 17, 2020 2:57:43 am
K K Venugopal while hearing a clutch of petitions seeking removal of farmers staging a sit-in at the borders of Delhi against the new farm laws.
Protests at Delhi’s Singhu and Tikri borders have had a ripple effect on businesses in the area, with those selling automobile and phone parts as well as warm clothes seeing an increase in demand even as several other establishments witness a dip.
Joining protest at Tikri: 2,000 women who lost family members to suicide
The women who joined the protest are mostly part of families of small farmers with limited landholdings, including four relatives of deceased farmers from Sangrur district s Jakhpal village. Updated: December 17, 2020 10:21:38 am
The group arrived in Tikri Wednesday. Prem Nath Pandey
Family members of farmers who committed suicide in Punjab over the years joined the ongoing protest at Delhi’s Tikri border Wednesday, with a few widows and mothers of the deceased farmers saying that they intend to remain at the site for the duration of the protest.
Around 2,000 women related to farmers who had committed suicide from various districts had left for the border from Punjab’s Malwa region on Tuesday in 17 buses and 10 tractor-trolleys arranged by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan). They reached the Ugrahan group’s transit camp, around 7 km from Tikri border, where they c
Farmers’ protest: At ‘pagdi langar’, a sea of colours and solidarity
Farmers protest: Among those lined up were not just regular turban wearers getting a fresh turban but those who wish to wear them in solidarity with the protesters. Updated: December 16, 2020 10:06:01 am
Farmers at Singhu border during their sit-in protest against the Centre s farm reform laws, in New Delhi. (PTI file photo)
On Tuesday, at Singhu border, men stood in line in front of a tractor to participate in what was being called pagdi langar, with volunteers briskly tying fresh turbans on their heads.
On display in the tractor were turban cloths of all colours reds, oranges, blues, purples, yellows, greens. Tejinder Singh, who was organising the distribution, said they had material for 1,000 turbans, and that they had tied turbans for around 300 people between 9 am and 1 pm.
Farmers protests: Keeping warm at Singhu, with desi geysers, firewood
Across the tractors and trolleys currently housing the protesting farmers at Delhi’s Singhu border, people said camping out in the cold in the Delhi winter does not affect them much. December 16, 2020 2:32:45 am
At the Singhu protest site, Tuesday. Most farmers said they have come equipped for the winter from their villages. Abhinav Saha
As the mercury drops in the national capital, farmers protesting at its borders say they are more than prepared to brave the cold and protect senior citizens among them.
On Tuesday afternoon, 82-year-old Chandar Singh from Haryana’s Sonipat district had set out a folding chair in the middle of the blockaded at G.T. Karnal Road and sat on it soaking in the sun as the protest buzzed around him. “I’m very comfortable, I’m not feeling at all bothered by the cold,” he said. That morning, the temperature had dipped to 4.1 degrees Cels