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Protesting farmer union Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee Monday said they would once again meet the Delhi police today to decide a time and route for their tractor rally. They said they were not satisfied with the concessions given to them. “We feel that the kind of permission granted to us for tractor rally is not right. We wanted to go to the old Ring Road, but we were given conditional permission & assigned the portion that comes largely under Haryana,” Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra said.
“All we are saying is that we do not want to go there, we just want to go to Ring Road. We will have a meeting with Police at 10 am today over this. It will then be decided where will we finally go. After the meeting, we will decide the time & route of the rally,” he further added.
After much reluctance the Delhi police Sunday had allowed the farmers’ tractor march in the city on Republic Day and finalised three routes after a week of meetings between farmers and senior police officers, putting in place adequate security arrangements. Haryana authorities have also advised people to avoid travelling to the national capital. The tractor rally will be held from Delhi’s three border points – Singhu, Tikri and Ghaziabad.
Special CP (Intelligence) Dependra Pathak, in a press conference, said: “We held discussions with Bharatiya Kisan Union leaders, and there’s an agreement that they will carry out their march after Republic Day celebrations at Rajpath. There should be no disturbance during the parade. We will provide them with adequate security; their march will be peaceful, and they will return to the border at the end.”
In the meantime, over 6,000 farmers from across 21 districts in Maharashtra arrived in Mumbai in a convoy of 500 vehicles to begin their three-day sit-in at Azad Maidan in solidarity with protesting farmers at the Delhi border. Senior leaders cutting across party lines, including NCP chief Sharad Pawar, will be addressing the gathering on Monday. The farmers have gathered under the banner of All India Kisan Sabha’s (AIKS) Maharashtra unit.
Farmer leaders have put forward the tractor march as a call to intensify and broaden the agitation against the new farm laws. Unions have announced that many more farmers are likely to join the gathering on Monday. The farmers taking part in the vehicle rally converged at Azad Maidan on January 24 and began a three-day sit-in. On January 25, a massive rally will be taken to Raj Bhavan and, a memo will be submitted to the Governor. On January 26, there will be a Republic Day flag hoisting at Azad Maidan.
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January 24, 2021 at 09:16PM
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