New Delhi: Several farmers from parts of Haryana on Friday decided to move towards Delhi borders to join the ongoing agitation against agri laws and held protests against lookout notices to peasant leaders and the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum to vacate protest site.
The farmers claimed that issuing the lookout notices and asking the farmers to vacate the site will not weaken the ongoing agitation against the Centre’s new farm laws. A number of farmers from Jind, Rohtak, Kaithal, Hisar, Bhiwani and Sonipat will be heading towards various protest sites at Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur, farmer leaders from Haryana claimed. At the protest site at the Uttar Pradesh Gate in Ghazipur bordering Delhi, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait broke down while speaking to the media on Thursday evening. He alleged that ”injustice” was being meted out to the farmers by the government by not repealing the new farm laws.
”We cannot tolerate a senior farmers leader being pushed to this situation. We are all united and our stir will continue till we force the government repeal the farm laws,” said a protesting farmer near Rohtak’s Madina toll plaza on Friday. Farmers in Jind’s Kandela blocked the Jind-Chandigarh road late for a few hours on Thursday night. They were protesting against the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum to the protesting farmers at UP Gate to vacate the site by Thursday night.
Khap leader from Jind, Azad Singh Palwa told reporters in Jind that it is being propagated that farmers’ agitation has weakened, which is not the case.
”We condemn the lookout notices to the farmer leaders. We also condemn the government for serving ultimatum to vacate a protest site. We want to warn the government that such moves will not weaken this agitation, but only make it stronger,” he said.
He also said that donations will be raised from villagers and more people will be mobilised to join the agitation.
”We will be sending tractor loads of essential supplies like food, ration, clothes for our brethren who are fighting this agitation. More people will be sent to join the stir,” he said.
On Friday morning, a group of farmers were holding a protest near Madina toll plaza in Rohtak.
”All farmers are united, no one can break this agitation, which will continue till these farm laws are repealed,” said a protesting farmer.
He said the protest near the toll plaza will continue and will be intensified in the days to come.
In Karnal, local farmers had resumed their ‘dharna’ at the Bastara toll plaza on Thursday, a day after the administration had got it vacated. However, on Friday there were reports of heavy police deployment near the toll plaza and administration had got the site vacated once again and normal operations at the plaza resumed.
