Updated Jul 26, 2021 | 07:26 IST
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has informed that a jatha of farmers from Moradabad, Hapur and Amroha will come to the protest site in Delhi and carry out a tractor parade on roads on August 15. BKU leader Rakesh Tikait | Photo Credit: ANI
New Delhi: Amid ongoing agitation against the Centre s three new farm laws, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has said that the next jatha of farmers will come to the national capital on August 14 a day before Independence Day celebrations.
The Kisan leader further stated that the farmers will unfurl the national flag at the site of the protest in Delhi s Jantar Manter and then they will carry out a tractor parade.
Amid Covid Curbs, Haryana And Punjab Farmers To Mark Black Day In Delhi Amid Covid Curbs, Haryana And Punjab Farmers To Mark Black Day In Delhi The farmers have reiterated their stance on talks, urging the Centre to initiate negotiations.
On reaching Singhu, the farmers will perform langar service for a week as part of the protest.
Chandigarh:
Amid a statewide Covid lockdown, thousands of farmers today set off from Karnal, Haryana, for Delhi, where they plan to observe May 26 as Black Day , marking six months of their protest against three central farm laws. Reports have also emerged of many from Sangrur, Punjab, leaving for the national capital.
Farmers protest: Around 3,000 RAF personnel called into Haryana s Hisar to block agitators
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As farmers look forward to picket the residence of a senior police officer on May 24 to protest criminal cases filed against more than 300 farmers, security has been beefed up to block the raging crowd in Haryana s Hisar district, reads a NDTV report. The farmers have been on protest against the centre s new farm laws since last November.
The Hisar police has registered cases against 350 farmers with charges including attempt to murder, rioting, unlawful assembly and spreading coronavirus after they protested in Hisar outside a temporary COVID-19 hospital, disrupting Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar s plans of inaugurating it.
Disinfection drives, serving kadha in langars among safety measures taken by farmers to keep virus at bay
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Send Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at three Delhi border points Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur for almost six months, demanding a repeal of the three agri reform laws enacted by the central government in September last year.
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From conducting disinfection drives to serving immunity-boosting kadha in langars, farmers protesting at Tikri and Singhu borders in the national capital against the Centre s three agricultural laws are taking new steps everyday to keep the deadly coronavirus at bay.