We demand immediate reinstatement of Internet services at Delhi borders : Samyukta Kisan Morcha ANI | Updated: Feb 04, 2021 20:18 IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Thursday demanded the immediate reinstatement of Internet services at Delhi borders. The government s efforts to suppress the voice of disagreement continue. Along with the agitating farmers, media persons and local people are facing a lot of troubles due to the internet ban, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha said. Especially students are facing a big problem as their exams are coming soon. On one side the Government of India propagates the plans like Digital India, but on the other hand, the people of the country are being deprived of the Internet, it added.
The Wayanad MP has been repeatedly slamming the Centre and its policies. Rahul Gandhi recently slammed the Central government after Twitter temporarily blocked accounts and posts related to the ongoing farmers` agitation on the direction of the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
He has also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government of planning to handover India`s assets to crony capitalist friends .
The Congress leader had on Tuesday attacked the government over barricades and roadblocks set up at farmer agitation sites at Delhi s borders, and asked the Centre to build bridges and not walls . GOI, Build bridges, not walls! Gandhi said on Twitter posting pictures of barricades and roadblocks at the farmer protest sites.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha delegation meets Kejriwal demanding release of agitators lodged in Delhi Jails ANI | Updated: Feb 02, 2021 23:15 IST
New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): A four-member delegation of Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Tuesday met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the release of the agitators lodged in the jails of Delhi and the missing persons in connection to farmers protest.
The delegation included Prem Singh Bhangu, Rajinder Singh Deep Singh Wala, Inderjit Singh, and Harpal Singh Mundal.
The leaders of the Kisan Morcha submitted a list of 29 missing youths to Kejriwal demanding all humanitarian facilities to the agitators lodged in Delhi jails, according to a release by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.
The scene was quite different just three days ago.
A day after the Republic Day violence in Delhi, when a section of farmers taking part in the tractor parade broke through barriers, clashed with police and stormed the Red Fort for a few hours, the farmer game it seemed to be over.
Morale plummeted and many farmers returned home.
On Wednesday night, the atmosphere was tense at Ghazipur.
The Ghaziabad administration issued an ultimatum to the protesters occupying a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut expressway to vacate as the January 26 clashes painted a not-so-peaceful picture of the peasant community.
As security presence at the site escalated and fears grew that the protesters would be forcibly evicted, an emotional Tikait broke down while talking to reporters.