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Image Source : PTI An aerial view of farmers protest web site at Ghazipur border. Farmers in varied states on Feb 6 participated within the Chakka Jam to protest towards new reforms within the agriculture sector aimed to spice up their earnings and provides them a wider market to promote their produce.
The three-hour-long nationwide ‘chakka jam’ by protesting farmers was held on Saturday amid tight safety, at the same time as there was no such occasion within the nationwide capital which was was a fortress with heavy safety deployment by the Delhi Police, paramilitary and reserve forces personnel to forestall any untoward state of affairs. The Delhi Police had additionally used drone cameras to maintain a decent vigil at protest websites. Although, the impression of chakka jam was seen in different components of the nation together with Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Punjab and different locations.

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Ten Delhi Metro stations, together with Mandi House and ITO, had been closed all through the ‘chakka jam’ from 12 midday to three pm, and reopened after the protest ended.
Around 50 folks had been detained close to Shaheedi Park in central Delhi for allegedly holding an agitation in help of the ‘chakka jam’.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella physique of farmer unions protesting towards the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines, had stated on Friday that the protesters wouldn’t block roads in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand through the ‘chakka jam’, even because it asserted that peasants in different components of the nation would block nationwide and state highways for 3 hours, however in a peaceable means.
However, in view of the Republic Day violence that had left 500 safety personnel injured and one protestor useless, the Delhi Police had made extra measures, together with tightening safety and intensifying vigil throughout town and its border factors.
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Security forces had been deployed at vital junctions throughout the nationwide capital, together with Red Fort and ITO, which had witnessed violence through the January 26 tractor rally organised by the protesting farmers.
Multilayered barricades, barbed wires and nail-studded roads on the protest websites had been additionally a part of the precautionary measures taken by the police drive.
The police additionally monitored content material on social media to maintain a watch on these spreading rumours towards the drive, officers stated.
Earlier within the day, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), in a collection of tweets, knowledgeable commuters that a number of stations have been closed.
“Security Update Entry/exit gates of Mandi House, ITO and Delhi Gate are closed,” it tweeted. The DMRC later tweeted that entry and exit gates of Vishwavidyalaya station had been additionally closed.
“Entry/exit gates of Lal Quila, Jama Masjid, Janpath and Central Secretariat are closed. Interchange facility is on the market. Entry/exit gates of Khan Market and Nehru Place are closed,” it tweeted.
In the night, the Delhi Metro said that entry and exit gates of all 10 metro stations closed in view of ‘chakka jam’ had been re-opened, and regular service had resumed.
At all of the three primary protest websites, farmers tenting there for over 70 days had been busy with routine affairs and there was not a lot exercise on Saturday.
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Image Source : APFarmers block an expressway at Kundli in Haryana, India, Saturday, Feb. 6 throughout Chakka Jam.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Deepak Yadav stated though the protestors had maintained that they might not enter the nationwide capital, the safety drive as a precautionary measure had made ample preparations to keep up legislation and order.
“There are additional deployment of pickets at all the border points. All vehicles are being checked thoroughly at the entry and exit points of pickets and borders. Additional buses had been taken and extra barricades put up at the picket points across the city,” he stated.
Meanwhile, hundreds of farmers blocked the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Haryana. Those coming to the stretch with their autos had been politely knowledgeable in regards to the protest and requested to show again. Biscuits and fruits had been distributed to the protesting farmers.
“I got here to the stretch at 11 am. There had been only a few folks then, however very quickly many began gathering and now it’s full. The objective is to stay peaceable and do exactly what’s instructed to us by our leaders — block the street until 3 pm, ” Mukesh Sharma, an area farmer supporting the motion, stated earlier within the day.
After the violence on January 26, Delhi Police Commissioner S N Srivastava had accused the protesting farmer union leaders of betrayal and breaching the settlement as hundreds of peasants deviated from their pre-decided routes for the tractor parade.
Tens of hundreds of farmers atop tractors had damaged limitations, clashed with police and entered town from varied factors to put siege to the Red Fort on Republic Day.
Thousands of peasants, staff, tribals, political and social activists, together with many ladies, took to the roads and highways throughout Maharashtra as a part of the nationwide ‘Chakka Jaam’, to demand scrapping of the three farm legal guidelines and specific solidarity with the farmers’ protests in Delhi, right here on Saturday.
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Activists blocked outstanding roads, state or nationwide highways and different vital thoroughfares in 34 of the state’s 36 districts – together with Mumbai and excluding Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg – squatted and halted site visitors, waved banners and placards, shouted slogans and sang devotional or patriotic songs, amid tight police safety, in response to All India Kisan Sabha spokesperson P.S. Prasad.
Barring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the agitation noticed the participation of all main events like Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party, Congress, the Left events, farmers’ organisations like All India Kisan Sabha, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, Bharatiya Kisan Sena, and so on.
“The agitation was near-total in places like Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Pune, Kolhapur, Solapur, Nashik, Ahmednagar, Osmanabad, and others with farmers, workers and political activists participating peacefully in huge numbers,” Prasad stated.
After the scheduled three-hours, the agitation was referred to as off peacefully with activists and members returning to their properties and regular vehicular site visitors resumed in any respect the affected sport, stated officers.
Earlier this afternoon, police detained farmers’ chief and Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavlamban Mission President, Kishore Tiwari, who’s accorded a MoS standing, whereas main a ‘chakka jam’ protest on the nationwide freeway in Yavatmal.
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Leading an agitation in Kolhapur, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS) President Raju Shetti stated that the so-called celebrities talking in favour of the BJP-ruled central authorities overlook that it’s the “crores of ordinary masses” who’ve raised them to their celeb standing.
“These people are doing a lot of ‘teev-teev’ (referring to the tweets), but once the people dump them, even a dog won’t sniff at the celebs,” Shetti warned.
He warned that the farmers agitation can be intensified by laying siege to the earnings tax and GST workplaces if the federal government fails to revoke the three farm legal guidelines.
While All India Kisan Sabha leaders like Ashok Dhawale, Ajit Nawale, led the protestors in numerous districts, CPI(M) legislator Vinod B. Nikole led the blockade by lots of of farmers and labourers on the freeway in Ahmednagar.
Expressing help to the farmers in Delhi, NCP State President Jayant Patil stated that is the primary time in Independent India {that a} central authorities was “hiding from the people” in such a fashion.
“The government is scared to face the people, the farmers and the workers. Hence it is resorting to tactics like hammering nails and barricades on roads” Patil stated.
In Nashik, SSS state president Sandeep Jagtap spearheaded the ‘chakka jam’, Buldhana SSS chief Prashant Dikkar led the protestors on the highways.
‘Chakka jam’ had been organised in different districts like Jalna, Beed, Latur, Nagpur, Nanded, Washim, Parbhani, Nandurbar, Dhule, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Gadchiroli, Amravati, by varied leaders, affecting site visitors motion to Union Territories of Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, states of Goa, Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat.
(With inputs from IANS)

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