Tractor parade: Farmers adamant on tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day, talks with police inconclusive

Image Source : PTI Tractor parade: Farmers-police talks inconclusive, Yogendra Yadav says rally exterior Delhi not potential
The second spherical of assembly between the police and farmer unions relating to the proposed January 26 tractor rally by them remained inconclusive on Thursday because the farmers caught to their demand of taking out the rally on Delhi’s busy Outer Ring Road. Taking to reporters after the assembly, Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav stated the police wished the farmer leaders to take out their tractor rally exterior the nationwide capital. 

“We will do our parade peacefully inside Delhi. They wanted us to hold the tractor rally outside Delhi, which is not possible,” Yadav, who’s actively taking part within the ongoing agitation in opposition to the Centre’s new farm legal guidelines, stated.

Sources stated cops tried to persuade the protesting farm unions to carry their tractor rally on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway as an alternative of the Outer Ring Road, however in useless. 

A farmer chief, who attended the assembly with the police, stated, “The government wants us to take out our rally outside Delhi, but we want to hold it inside Delhi. No decision was taken in today’s meeting.”

Joint Commissioner of Police (Northern Range) S S Yadav coordinated the assembly held at Mantram Resort close to the Singhu border.

The assembly was additionally attended by Special Commissioner (Law and Order-Western Zone) Sanjay Singh, Special Commissioner of Police (Intelligence) Dependra Pathak and different senior officers from Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh police. 

The same assembly was held on Wednesday between the union leaders and officers of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana police at Vigyan Bhawan to debate the route and preparations of the proposed rally on January 26. However, the farmer unions had rejected a suggestion by the cops to carry the rally on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway as an alternative of Delhi’s busy Outer Ring Road, sources stated.

Thousands of farmers, largely from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting at a number of Delhi border factors in opposition to the Centre’s new agriculture legal guidelines for almost two months. The unions representing the farmers have begun holding tractor rallies at villages in Punjab to mobilise individuals for the demonstration on Republic Day.

The farmers are vehemently opposing the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020. Enacted in September final yr, the three legal guidelines have been projected by the Centre as main reforms within the agriculture sector that can take away middlemen and permit farmers to promote their produce wherever within the nation.

However, the protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the best way for eliminating the security cushion of MSP (minimal help worth) and eliminate the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of massive corporates. 

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