Rakesh Tikait says no Feb 6 ‘chakka jaam’ in Delhi, jibes at PM over fortification of protest websites

Going agency on their demand for repeal of the brand new agri legal guidelines, lots of of farmers spent one other evening within the chilly and withstood spells of drizzle on Thursday at Ghazipur, their heavily-secured protest website on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait, main the stir right here since November together with his supporters, stated the motion at Delhi’s outskirts may proceed until October this 12 months and can be supported by villagers.
He additionally took a veiled jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the fortification of the protest websites at Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu as he shared with the press the small print of the proposed February 6 ‘chakka jaam’ (blockading of roads as a type of protest).
He stated the blockade won’t be executed in Delhi however will happen in different components of the National Capital Region, which includes components of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, and the remainder of nation together with the southern states.
“Dilli mein hum nahi kar rahe, wahan to raja ne khud qile-bandi kar li hai humare jaam karne ki zaroorat hi nahi hai (We are not going to do anything in Delhi, the king there has already fortified it, there is no need for us to do a blockade now),” he advised reporters right here.
On the proposed ‘chakka jaam’, he stated, “There will be a three-hour blockade on roads. It won’t happen in Delhi but other parts of the country. The vehicles which will come and stop will be given water and food. Items like ‘chana’ and peanuts will also be distributed to these people and we will apprise them of what the government is doing with us.”
The influential farmer chief, credited with reviving the farmers’ protest after a quick lull following the January 26 violence, stated the motion for the repeal of the contentious legal guidelines may proceed until October.
“The framework for furthering the movement is being in villages. Two tractors will come from villages and they will stay here for five days. Then they will leave and other two tractors replace them,” he stated, replying to a volley of questions by the press.
About the stringent safety measures and street blockades at Ghazipur, he stated the Delhi Police ought to reasonably be requested about it as they’ve executed it.
“The farmers will pull out all iron nails of the government, and also pull out those fixed at protest sites one by one,” he stated, on the police repositioning iron nails on the protest websites.
On additional talks between the farmers and the federal government to interrupt the deadlock, Tikait stated that call might be taken by the committee of the farmers unions.
Tikait, who has maintained that the continued protests are apolitical regardless of Opposition political events reaching protest websites, stated politicians visiting Ghazipur are “not doing it as part of any agenda” however solely to know concerning the farmers.
Asked concerning the protestors being dubbed as “Khalistanis” and “anti-national” by some individuals, the BKU nationwide spokesperson stated these expenses are a “thing of the past” and it was time for everybody to “move on”.
Meanwhile, many farmers camped in momentary tarpaulin-roofed shelters which have come up on a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut freeway, whereas many had their tractor-trailers double up as their resting place and scores stretched out on mattresses placed on the important thing street that till November had 1000’s of automobiles passing via day by day.
The protesters withstood the chilly circumstances of the evening and the morning drizzle, however spells of rain in the direction of the night introduced down their numbers at Ghazipur.
The Ghaziabad police officers estimated a crowd measurement of two,000 to three,000 right here throughout the day.
Police and paramilitary forces, deployed in massive numbers right here within the wake of the Republic Day furore, remained on the bottom whereas multi-layered barricades and concertina wires remained in place together with iron nails studded on roads to stop any motion in the direction of Delhi.
Iron nails, which have been studded on the roads across the protest website, have been being eliminated, a transfer that drew jibes from protesters towards the stringent safety measures, at the same time as Delhi Police officers stated the spikes have been simply being “repositioned”.
“The way they are taking the nails off, they will repeal the laws also,” a person from a gaggle of protesters on the Uttar Pradesh Gate (Ghazipur) advised a tv information channel.
Delhi Police’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Deepak Yadav asserted that the safety preparations on the border will stay the identical.
“Videos and photos are getting circulated in which it is shown that nails are being taken off at Ghazipur. These are just being repositioned. Security arrangement at the border remains the same,” he stated.