Some posters, ostensibly put up by Delhi Police on the Tikri border, declaring the gathering of farmers as unlawful and asking them to disperse has created a flutter on the protest website, even because the drive claimed these weren’t new and solely knowledgeable the protesters that they might not be allowed to enter the nationwide capital.
Titled a ‘legal warning’ by the SHO of Mundka police station, the posters, in Hindi and Punjabi, learn: “Your gathering has been declared against the law. You are warned to disperse this gathering otherwise disciplinary action as per law will be taken against you.”
The farmers declare that the posters got here up within the space on Monday afternoon.
In a press release, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the umbrella physique of farmer unions spearheading the agitation in opposition to the agri legal guidelines, stated that it’s against the police’s transfer because the protesters have been exercising their constitutional proper and appealed to the farmers to proceed their sit-in peacefully.
“The Delhi Police has placed some posters at the Tikri border protest site where farmers have been warned that they will have to vacate the area. Such posters are irrelevant as farmers have been staging a peaceful protest by exercising their constitutional rights….We will oppose the conspiracy to end the protest with these kinds of threats and warnings,” the SKM stated within the assertion.
Shingara Singh Mann, senior vice-president of BKU (Ugrahan), instructed The Indian Express: “We aren’t bothered; farmers are firm and we will not budge. Our dharnas will go on until the laws are repealed.”
He added, “The notice came up after Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar said ‘crowds don’t lead to revocation of laws’. We have held 12 round of talks with Centre and he had earlier congratulated us for maintaining peace and keeping this dharna apolitical. He used to call it `kisan andolan’ during our meetings; now we are a crowd.”
Contacted by Indian Express, an space police officer claimed no such posters had been put up by them however didn’t elaborate. The DCP and extra DCP involved didn’t reply to calls or messages in search of a remark.
However, PTI quoted a senior Delhi Police officer as saying that it’s a “routine” course of.
“The posters were pasted at the border area after the protest started. It is a routine exercise. Police have conveyed to them through posters that they are sitting in the jurisdiction of Haryana and they are not allowed to enter the national capital unlawfully,” PTI quoted the officer as saying.
Meanwhile, Jagmohan Singh Patiala, common secretary of BKU Dakaunda and member of the SKM, instructed The Indian Express, “A few posters have come up near the Tikri dharna site warning us to vacate. We are doing a peaceful protest using our fundamental rights.” He too linked the poster to Tomar’s remarks.
Dr Dashan Pal, president of the Krantikari Kisan Union and in addition member of the SKM, stated, “We strongly condemn such actions. Farmers have been protesting in a peaceful manner at the borders for 90 days and we will continue to protest till our demands are met. We are not even sitting inside Delhi.”
