New Delhi: Farmers’ movement against agricultural laws continues. Farmers organizations have announced Chakka Jam today. Security has been tightened on the Delhi border in view of the farmers’ chakka jam . After the violence in Delhi on 26 January, the police is not in a mood to lax at all. Police has made arrangements for several layers of Delhi’s three borders – Singhu Border, Tikari Border and Ghazipur Border – where farmers are demonstrating. The wheel jam of the farmers organizations will run from 12 noon to 3 pm. Apart from Delhi, there will be no traffic jam in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Security deployment has been stepped up since the events of January 26, and in view of the three-hour ‘chakka jam’ called by farmer unions on Saturday February 6. However Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of 40 farm unions has already announced that “there will be no Chakka Jam in Delhi NCR as all the protest sites are already in Chakka Jam mode.” All roads will be open to enter Delhi, except where the security agencies have already put up the massive barricadings. The farmer leaders have also issued guidelines to farmers, and supporters who will participate in the ‘jam’ that has called for ceasing all traffic movement, including on National and state highways across the country from 12 noon to 3 PM, on Saturday.
Emergency and essential services such as ambulances, school busses etc. will not be stopped, said the organisers. They have also told participants not to “engage in any confrontation with any officers, employees or common citizens during the event.”
As a symbol of peace and non confrontation, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait even planted flowers at the spot where the spikes were put (and later reportedly repositioned) on the road leading to the farmers protest site at the Ghazipur border that connects Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The farmers unloaded mounds of soil from their villages near the barricades and then planted flowers on it. The message is loud and clear.
