After removing barricades and barbed wires from farmers' protest sites, Delhi Police said that it wanted to “create a positive atmosphere” for people who had been “facing a lot of problems”.
Farmers agitating at three Delhi border points raised black flags, shouted anti-government slogans, burnt effigies and took out protest marches as they observed black day on Wednesday to mark the completion of six months of their stir against the three Central agri laws. A brief ruckus was also re
RAMPUR: Like many young farmers across the agri belts in Punjab, Haryana and UP, Navreet Singh would make the trip to Delhi’s Ghazipur border to join the protest every few days. The 24-year-old had just come home from Australia, newly married and was a vocal opponent of the new farm laws. On Tuesday, he was among the protesters on tractors that veered towards the heart of Delhi. Moments after his tractor turned turtle, people found him dead.
On Wednesday, the lingering question of how he really died hanging heavy, his family cremated him. His village with 8,000-odd people, Dibdiba in UP’s Rampur, had gone quiet, police presence marking every inch. While Navreet’s wife Mansweet (21) who is in Melbourne has not recovered from the shock, his grandfather Hardeep Singh Dibdiba who attended the cremation along with Navreet’s father, says, “He died a martyr.”
Farmers protest LIVE Updates: The eighth round of talks between the government and representatives of protesting unions ended without any outcome on Friday and the next meeting is likely to take place on 15 January, sources said. Watch LIVE News, Latest Updates, Live blog, Highlights and Live coverage online at firstpost.com.