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  • Haryana cops: 40,000 ‘committed supporters’ at Delhi farm stir websites

    For all of the discuss of the farmers’ agitation towards the agri legal guidelines at Delhi’s border factors tapering off, the numbers reveled by the Haryana Police paint a unique image. Top officers of state police estimate presence of round 40,000 “committed supporters” from Punjab and Haryana at Singhu and Tikri borders even after passing of almost 4 months because the agitation shifted to the National Capital in late November final yr.
    At floor degree in Haryana, the farmers are busy in executing micro administration to maintain the agitation for months whilst 25 corporations of paramilitary forces are nonetheless tenting in state to assist the native police deal with the continued stir.
    Currently, the police officers estimate, there are 18,000-19,000 protesters sitting at Singhu border whereas one other 20,000-22,000 are at Tikri. Farmer leaders, nevertheless, declare that the numbers are a lot greater than the estimates of police.
    Speaking to The Indian Express, a senior Haryana Police officer claimed a big lower within the variety of farmers at Delhi borders in Haryana jurisdiction compared to their presence on January 26 however provides that “still there is a big number of protesters at the borders”. “We can’t underestimate their current presence at the borders,” added the officer requesting anonymity.

    Farmer leaders say that numerous farmers had been alleged to return to their properties after attending the “tractor parade” on the Republic Day.
    The police officer stated, “Earlier, the people used to go to the border points like they go to attend a fair. Now, there is a less floating crowd at the protest sites, but committed supporters of the agitation are still there.”
    The officer stated that the transfer by Uttar Pradesh Police aiming to take away protesters from Ghazipur border within the night of January 27 had proved counter-productive in Haryana. “It had a very sharp reaction in Haryana. A lot of farmers were upset and a number of kisan mahapanchayats were organized after that episode. The agitation became stronger after the incident at Ghazipur where BKU leader Rakesh Tikait was seen with tears in eyes. For the next 10-15 days, Haryana was very hot. However, now the pace of agitation has slowed down,” claimed the officer.
    Haryana police officers claimed that they’d dealt with the state of affairs instantly after the violence in Delhi throughout a “tractor parade” on January 26 “very tactfully”. Instead of utilizing pressure, the Haryana police was seen pursuing the farmer leaders to take away their dharnas from toll the plazas on January 27.

    “When the agitation was at its peak around January 26, we were having 45 companies of paramilitary forces. Basically, these were given to Haryana by the Centre to handle the situation in wake of the farmers’ agitation. They came in phases between last week of November last year and last week of January this year. Twenty companies have been withdrawn after elections were announced in five states. Now, we have 25 companies of paramilitary forces, primarily CRPF and RAF apart from BSF and ITBP.”
    A most of the paramilitary forces has been deployed in Jhajjar and Sonipat districts the place the protesters are tenting at Singhu and Tikri borders in Haryana jurisdiction.
    The safety personnel of ITBP and Haryana Police needed to be deployed to make sure clean functioning of a coaching camp of BJP at Narwana city of Jind district on March 14, with offended farmers staging a protest exterior the venue.
    On the opposite hand, the agitating farmers have modified their technique to maintain the agitation for lengthy. Dharnas of farmers at toll plazas to make sure free passage of autos remains to be persevering with. But now, the agitators go to the dharna websites in rotation with farmers from 15 neighbouring villages making it a degree to stay current on the venue day by day.
    In one other plan, now they’ve centered on forming committees in villages to emerge as a robust strain group for future. The efforts are additionally on to hunt lively help from different sections of the society like labourers and workers.
    Farmers, labourers and arhtiyas (fee brokers) on Friday joined palms to carry dharnas in anaj mandis of Jind district. “This has now become a mass movement. Not only farmers, now labourers and employees too are participating in the agitation actively,” stated Azad Singh Palwa, Jind district president of BKU. On Thursday, a mahila kisan panchayat was held in Kandela village of Jind district. Observers imagine the farmers will intensify the agitation additional in May after finishing the harvesting season of crops.

  • Labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur will get bail from Punjab & Haryana HC

    Image Source : ANI Activist Nodeep Kaur will get bail.
    In a serious aid to labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, who was arrested in Haryana on legal prices in the course of the farmers’ agitation, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday granted her bail. Justice Avneesh Jhingan handed the order on her bail petition.

    In the petition, she mentioned she was falsely implicated underneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code for try and homicide, assault and detering a public servant from discharge of his responsibility.

    She mentioned she was “targeted and falsely implicated” within the case as she was producing assist for the farmer protest in opposition to the Centre’s farm legal guidelines.

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    Even British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi had expressed concern over Nodeep Kaur’s arrest, saying the abuse of peaceable protest activists, particularly ladies, is an affront to democracy and civilised society.

    “Alarmed to learn of sexual assault and torture allegations in police custody of Punjabi trade unionist Nodeep Kaur, who after four weeks hasn’t even been granted bail,” Dhesi had tweeted. Nodeep Kaur, 23, was arrested on January 12 in the course of the farmers’ protest at Kundli in Haryana.

    Nodeep’s case got here to the fore as US Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece Meena Harris claimed in a tweet that she was “tortured and sexually assaulted” in police custody. However, the police had mentioned she was dealing with severe legal instances.

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  • Rakesh Tikait calls on farmers for ‘tractor revolution’

    Image Source : PTI Rakesh Tikait calls on farmers for ‘tractor revolution’
    Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait on Saturday known as on peasants throughout the nation to hitch the “tractor revolution” as a part of the continuing protests at Delhi’s borders towards the brand new agri legal guidelines launched by the Centre.

    During a speech to supporters on the Ghazipur protest website, Tikait reached out to the farming group, a lot of whom particularly within the Delhi-NCR area have been upset over the National Green Tribunal’s ban on diesel automobiles, together with tractors, which are over 10 years outdated.

    “The tractors which run in the farms will now run at the NGT’s office in Delhi also. Until recently, they had not asked which vehicles are 10 years old. What is their plan? Phase out tractors older than 10 years and help the corporates? But the tractors older than 10 years will also run and the movement (for repeal of the new farm laws) will also be strengthened,” Tikait, 51, advised the gang amid cheers.

    He mentioned increasingly more farmers throughout the nation will take part within the ongoing farmers’ stir for rollback of the contentious legal guidelines. Recently, 20,000 tractors had been in Delhi and the following goal is taking that quantity to 40 lakh, Tikait mentioned.

    He additionally known as on tractor house owners to connect their automobiles with the ‘tractor kraanti’ (tractor revolution).

    “Write ‘Tractor Kranti 2021, 26 January’ on your tractors. Wherever you will go, you will be respected. We have a target of 40 lakh tractors,” he mentioned.

    The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief, whose emotional attraction not too long ago had revived the protest that was shedding momentum publish the January 26 violence in Delhi, additionally known as on villagers to carry a fistful of soil from their farmlands to the agitation websites and take again an identical quantity of ‘mitti’ of the revolution from the protest websites.

    “Go and spread this revolutionary soil in your farmlands and never will traders look at your farmlands (to usurp it),” Tikait mentioned.

    Exhorting supporters to maintain the momentum going, he requested them to be ready to succeed in protest websites because the agitation at Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu border factors of Delhi may go on until October.

    “Be prepared at villages, whenever a call is made, reach the protest the way the youth (from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh) has done (after the January 26 episode),” he mentioned.

    Ghazipur has earlier witnessed the affect of Tikait over the farmers’ group in north India when lots of of individuals, together with girls and kids, from villages in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand reached right here with water and home-made meals on the BKU chief’s name.
    Tikait had made a name for water and meals from villages following disruptions in water provide on the protest website by native authorities within the wake of the January 26 violence. 

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  • ‘Chakka Jam’: Farmers block roads in Punjab, Haryana; web suspended at Delhi’s three border protest websites

    Amid heightened safety, farmers protesting towards the Centre’s new agriculture legal guidelines blocked roads at a number of locations throughout the nation on a name given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha for a nationwide ‘Chakka Jam’ or street blockade on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Union Home Ministry ordered the suspension of web companies at Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri borders of Delhi until 11.59 pm.
    During the ‘Chakka Jam’, which befell from 12 pm to three pm, farmers shouted slogans and parked their tractors-trolleys in the midst of highways at a number of locations in Punjab and Haryana to dam roads.

    The ‘Chakka Jam’ was in response to the “ignoring” of the farmers’ calls for within the Union Budget 2021 and the web ban imposed by the central authorities at varied protest websites bordering the nationwide capital. This was the primary massive occasion organised by the agitating farmers after the Republic Day tractor rally, which noticed chaotic scenes as teams of protesting farmers broke off the deliberate parade route, entered the centre of the nationwide capital, clashed with the police in addition to hoisted a farm union flag and a Sikh spiritual flag on the ramparts of the long-lasting Red Fort.
    The protests have been outstanding in Punjab and Haryana the place many nationwide highways have been blocked by the farmers, inflicting disruption of visitors. In Rajasthan too, farmers blocked the highways and essential roads at many locations together with Ganganagar, Hanumangarh, Dholpur and Jhalawar and held demonstrations.
    Farmers throughout their protest towards the Centre’s new farm legal guidelines, at Tikri border in New Delhi, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh)
    In Jammu, farmer teams staged a protest alongside the Jammu-Pathankot freeway in assist of the ‘Chakka Jam’. In Karnataka, the police detained the protesters who have been agitating exterior Yelahanka Police Station.
    Farmers, primarily from Punjab and Haryana, have been tenting at Delhi’s borders for over two months looking for the repeal of the three agriculture legal guidelines. The legal guidelines are — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
    Activists of varied organisatins block the Jammu-Pathankot freeway in assist of farmers’ protest towards new farm legal guidelines, in Jammu, Saturday, Feb. 6. 2021. (PTI Photo)
    The protesting farmers have expressed the apprehension that these legal guidelines would pave the best way for the dismantling of the minimal assist worth (MSP) system, leaving them on the “mercy” of huge firms. The authorities, nonetheless, has rejected these claims stating that the legal guidelines will solely give farmers extra choices to promote their produce.
    ‘Won’t return house till calls for met’: Tikait
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (Arajnaitik) chief Rakesh Tikait stated the federal government has time until October 2 to repeal the legal guidelines and that the agitation would proceed until their calls for are met. Addressing the farmers gathered at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, Tikait stated, “We won’t return home unless our demands are met.”
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait  participates in a plantation programme, through the ongoing protest towards new farm legal guidelines, at Ghazipur border, in New Delhi, Friday. (PTI Photo)
    Tikait, whose tearful enchantment after Republic Day violence galvanised the dividing farmers’ unions, stated, “We have given time to the government till October 2 to repeal the laws. After this, we will do further planning. We won’t hold discussions with the government under pressure.”
    Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Harsimrat Kaur Badal stated the federal government was flawed in assuming that solely Punjab is collaborating within the ongoing farmer protests. “Entire country is protesting, farmers from all states are sitting at protest sites. If they still want to turn a blind eye claiming only Punjab is protesting, then one can’t do anything,” information company ANI quoted her as saying.
    ‘Chakka jam’ of Kisan unions at Ladowal Toll Plaza on NH 1 in Ludhiana on Saturday. (Express photograph by Gurmeet Singh)
    50 detained in Delhi
    As many as 50 individuals have been detained by the Delhi Police close to Shaheedi Park in central Delhi for allegedly holding a protest in assist of the ‘Chakka Jam’ name given by the farmers, in keeping with information company PTI.
    In view of the ‘chakka jam’, the Delhi Police had strengthened safety preparations in any respect border factors within the nationwide capital by erecting multi-layer barricades to cease the motion of autos on the Ghazipur border.
    Opposition lends assist to the agitation
    Ahead of the ‘Chakka Jam’, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi stated the peaceable ‘satyagraha’ of the ‘annadatas’ was in nationwide curiosity because the farm legal guidelines have been “harmful” for the nation.
    “The peaceful satyagraha of annadatas is in national interest — these three laws are not just harmful to farmers-laborers, but also for the people and the country. Full support!” Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.

    अन्नदाता का शांतिपूर्ण सत्याग्रह देशहित में है- ये तीन क़ानून सिर्फ़ किसान-मज़दूर के लिए ही नहीं, जनता व देश के लिए भी घातक हैं।
    पूर्ण समर्थन!#FarmersProtests
    — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 6, 2021
    Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally attacked the federal government over the farmers’ difficulty by posting an image of the multi-layered barricading at one of many protest websites on Delhi borders. “Why are you scaring us with the wall of fear?” she tweeted together with the image.
    Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia stated the NDA authorities ought to settle for the calls for of the farmers and repeal the legal guidelines.
    Residents supporting the protesting farmers burns the effigy of PM Modi through the “Chakka jam” of Kisan unions at Jalandhar Bypass on NH 1 in Ludhiana on Saturday. (Express Photos by Gurmeet Singh)
    “There is high alert in Delhi, but one can understand the pain of farmers across the country. I have seen that farmers from Gujarat also went to Delhi to present their points (on farm laws),” he stated.
    “The main issue is why did the BJP bring the laws to benefit select corporates by setting aside the interest of farmers? And if the BJP thinks that the laws are in the interest of farmers, and they understand them better, then why doesn’t it accept the farmers’ demands?…It should accept their demands,” he added.
    Security was heightened in Delhi within the view of chakka jam. (Express photograph by Praveen Khanna)
    Delhi Metro operation affected
    Entry and exit amenities at a number of outstanding Delhi metro stations have been quickly closed in view of the ‘Chakka Jam’.
    In a collection of tweets, the DMRC knowledgeable commuters that a number of stations had been closed. “Security Update Entry/exit gates of Mandi House, ITO and Delhi Gate are closed,” it tweeted.
    It later additionally tweeted that entry and exit gates of Vishwavidyalaya station have been additionally closed. “Entry/exit gates of Lal Quila, Jama Masjid, Janpath and Central Secretariat are closed. Interchange facility is available,” the DMRC stated.

  • Toolkit expose has revealed lots: EAM Jaishankar

    Image Source : PTI “It has revealed a lot. We’ve to wait & see what else comes out,” EAM S Jaishankar on toolkit being uncovered.
    Amid the continuing agitation and tweets by worldwide celebrities over farmers protest, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar whereas talking on the toolkit matter mentioned that its expose has revealed lots.

    “It has revealed a lot. We’ve to wait and see what else comes out. There was a reason why Foreign Ministry reacted to statements which some celebrities gave out on matters on which they obviously didn’t know very much,” the EAM minister mentioned.

    Earlier on Friday, the Delhi Police requested Google and a few social media giants to supply details about electronic mail ids, URLs and sure social media accounts associated to the creators of a “toolkit” shared by teen local weather activist Greta Thunberg and others on Twitter in reference to the farmers’ protest.

    The Cyber Cell unit of the Delhi Police had on Thursday lodged an FIR in opposition to “pro-Khalistan” creators of the “toolkit” for waging a “social, cultural and economic war against the Government of India”.

    Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Cell) Anyesh Roy mentioned a letter has been written to Google and different entities searching for info from them about individuals who created these accounts and uploaded these paperwork together with the toolkit on social media.

    Police mentioned they’ve sought particulars in regards to the electronic mail ids, area URLs and sure social media accounts talked about within the “toolkit”.
    This doc was uploaded by way of Google doc and shared in a while Twitter.

    As of now, we’re ready for particulars from the involved entities and primarily based on info offered by them, we’ll proceed with the investgation additional, Roy mentioned.

    A senior police officer mentioned that the unique doc will assist the investigators in figuring out the creators of the “toolkit” and the one who has shared it.

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    He mentioned the doc in query was created, edited and pushed by sure folks and it is very important establish them since there may be an “element of conspiracy”.

    The case in opposition to unnamed individuals have been registered on prices of legal conspiracy, sedition and numerous different sections of the Indian Penal Code, police mentioned.

    According to a senior Delhi Police officer, preliminary investigation has urged the doc’s hyperlink with a pro-Khalistan group, named ”Poetic Justice Foundation”.

    He mentioned contemplating the unfolding of occasions previously few days, together with the violence on January 26, it has revealed “copycat execution” of the motion plan talked about within the ”toolkit” which was additionally aimed toward waging “a social, cultural and economic war against the Government of India.”

    According to police, the toolkit has a specific part which says — digital strike by way of hashtags on or earlier than January 26, tweet storms on January 23 onwards, bodily motion on January 26 and watch-out or be a part of farmers march into Delhi and again to borders.

    The doc ”toolkit” was aimed to unfold disaffection and ill-will in opposition to the federal government of India and creating disharmony amongst numerous social, spiritual and cultural teams, the police added.

    (With inputs from IANS)

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  • Farmers at Ghazipur plant flowers in response to ‘iron nails’

    Farmers at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Friday planted flower saplings alongside a highway stretch, saying it was their response to “iron nails” mounted within the space by the police.
    Stringent safety measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, had come up together with iron nails cemented on roads across the protest web site within the wake of the January 26 violence in Delhi.
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait mentioned, “The police had fixed iron nails for farmers but we have decided to plant flowers for them.”
    Rows of marigold flowers have come up close to the barricading solely in a “symbolic gesture” however a comparatively larger plantation drive was underway on a highway stretch close by, BKU media incharge Dharmendra Malik mentioned.
    “A flower garden is being created on the Delhi-Dabur Tiraha road. This will cover the dirt lying on road stretches, and also emanate fragrance and improve the environment around,” Malik mentioned.

    Farmers, who’re getting the flower saplings from close by nurseries, mentioned they have been on the trail of “peaceful” demonstration.
    Farmers, together with these from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, are tenting in non permanent tarpaulin-roofed shelters, whereas many have their tractor-trailers double up as their resting place which have come up on a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut freeway.
    Besides Ghazipur, hundreds of farmers are protesting at Tikri and Singh on Delhi’s outskirts since November 2020 with a requirement that the federal government repeal the brand new agri-marketing legal guidelines believing they’d harm their livelihood. The authorities, which has held no less than 11 rounds of formal talks with the representatives of the protesting farmer unions, has maintained that the legal guidelines enacted final September are pro-farmer.

  • Iron rods hooked, makeshift wall created at Singhu border to limit motion of protesters

    Image Source : PTI New Delhi: Barricades being arrange as a part of safety enhancements by the police close to the positioning of farmers’ ongoing protest in opposition to farm reform legal guidelines, at Singhu Border in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
    Workers below the watch of police personnel on Monday hooked iron rods between two rows of cement boundaries on a flank of the principle freeway on the Singhu border to additional prohibit the motion of protesters agitating in opposition to the brand new farm legal guidelines on the web site. Another portion of the freeway on the Delhi-Haryana border is virtually blocked now as a makeshift cement wall has come up there. A employee, drilling rods in cross-formation between two rows of strong boundaries within the afternoon, mentioned, “The other flank was done yesterday. Cement is to be poured in the space between the barriers on this flank to make a makeshift wall”.
    The transfer comes days after the violent clashes between some protesters and police on January 26 in the course of the tractor parade by the agitating farmers.
    The part of the freeway on the Singhu border, which has been the epicenter of the farmers’ protests for over 60 days, had additionally seen a conflict lately between farmers and a bunch of people that claimed to be native residents.
    On Monday, the Delhi facet of the Singhu border noticed a sparse crowd of protesters whereas the Haryana facet was dominated by vociferous speeches denouncing the brand new farm legal guidelines and clarion calls to infuse a brand new sense of solidarity within the agitation after the Republic Day incident.
    Security personnel from the paramilitary forces, RAF and CRPF, had been seen in comparatively fewer numbers in comparison with the previous few days however police personnel manned the stretch spanking a mile from the protest web site.
    Besides the makeshift wall on the freeway, a small trench was additionally dug up earlier throughout an inside avenue slightly off the freeway and cement barricades put up on each side.
    The protesting farmers and leaders at a tent, nonetheless, confirmed no indicators of being cowed down and asserted that “these barricades put up around us can’t cage our spirit”.
    All of them alleged that on January 26, “a conspiracy was made to malign this movement” and “defame it”, and extra such makes an attempt are being made whereas asserting that the agitation has “come out stronger” now.
    Jashandeep Singh, 28, a resident of Mohali, who left his personal job, and spouse and one-year-old daughter behind in his hometown, to affix the motion at Singhu Border, from its early days, mentioned, “We are not retreating an inch”.

    “If they think, we will get intimidated by these force tactics, then they are mistaken. We are warriors, and our fight is for everyone, and for the future generations of this country. And, they may make cement walls, but no wall is high for our free spirit. This movement is not a flood that can be checked with a dam. It’s a tsunami, no walls can stop it,” he mentioned.
    In the night, cement was poured into a bit of the double-sided strong barricade, at the same time as a bunch of youth from the households of farmers, stood huddled round proper subsequent to the barricade on the opposite facet.
    “They are making a wall to stop the farmers, and that too with the taxpayers’ money. Is the media listening,” screamed one of many youths from the gang as police officers and personnel watched from the Delhi facet of the border.
    Earlier within the day, Balwinder Singh Sirsa, a farmer chief from Sirsa, Haryana, whereas addressing farmers, exhorted them to not get demotivated by what occurred on January 26 because it was “orchestrated by some people to denigrate the movement”.
    A girl protester from Haryana, addressing an enormous gathering from the dais, mentioned the alleged conspiracy on that day has “failed to weaken this movement” and has moderately injected “a new lease of life” in it.
    Randhir Singh, 85, a farmer from Haryana, additionally addressed the gathering saying “I have worked with legends Mahendra Singh Tikait and I know how Jat movement was weakened few years ago”.
    “What happened on January 26 was a conspiracy. It was not done by farmers but all was part of a smear campaign bring run to defame the movement,” he alleged.
    “We are not terrorists or Khalistani. We are fighting for our rights. Attempts are still being made to defame and weaken us. But Tikait’s tears have awakened the farmers of Haryana, UP, and other states,” he mentioned.

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  • Ghazipur border: Delhi Police fixes nails on floor close to protesting web site

    Image Source : ANI Delhi Police have fastened nails on the bottom close to barricades at Ghazipur (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh) border the place farmers are protesting in opposition to 3 new farm legal guidelines.
    The Delhi Police has fastened nails on the bottom close to barricades at Ghazipur (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh) border, one of many centre level of farmers protest which has been persevering with for over 2 months now. The farmers unions have stand agency on their demand of repealing the three farm legal guidelines whereas the federal government has stated the decision to this could solely be discovered by means of dialogue. After varied rounds of talks with the farmers, the federal government has proven its intent of constructing amendments within the current legal guidelines and have additionally put ahead the proposal to carry the brand new reforms for 1.5 years, however farmer leaders have remained adamant to their calls for.

    Earlier within the day, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava visited the Ghazipur border and took a inventory of the safety preparations. He addressed the Delhi Police personnel deployed within the space and appreciated the onerous work completed by them.

    Delhi Police have fastened nails on the bottom close to barricades at Ghazipur (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh) border. pic.twitter.com/T0r53mMdoY— ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2021

    Meanwhile, safety has been beefed up on the three borders — Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri — and barricades, boulders, and barbed wires have come up as extra forces make ther approach there amid apprehensions of extra farmers becoming a member of the protest from Punjab, Haryana and western UP.

    Image Source : PTIBarricading at Ghazipur border to cease farmers from marching in direction of the nationwide capital, throughout their ongoing agitation in opposition to Centres farm reform legal guidelines, in New Delhi.

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    Drones are getting used to maintain surveillance and intense checking is being carried out at border areas which has resulted in huge site visitors snarls within the capital. The Delhi Police have registered a complete of 44 instances within the farmers’ protest until now and a complete of 122 folks have been arrested.

    The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday prolonged the momentary suspension of web on the Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri borders, until 11 p.m. on Tuesday, within the wake of farmers’ protest. Nearby 250 Twitter accounts have additionally been suspended.

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  • Freelance journalist arrested for ‘misbehaving’ with police at Singhu border

    A contract journalist was arrested from the Singhu border on Sunday for allegedly misbehaving with the police personnel on obligation on the farmers’ protest web site there, officers mentioned.
    A case was registered towards him and he has been arrested now, a senior police officer mentioned, a day after the scribe was detained.
    Police had earlier mentioned that they positioned barricades on the border following the violence on Friday to make sure that nobody may get by way of. However, some folks together with the journalist have been making an attempt to take away the barricades, the police had alleged, including the scribe additionally misbehaved with the police personnel there.

    On Friday on the Singhu border, there have been clashes between farmers and a big group of males claiming to be native residents who hurled stones at one another. Singhu border is without doubt one of the most important protest websites towards the brand new farm legal guidelines.
    Delhi Police SHO (Alipur) was injured within the violence. At least 44 folks, together with the person who attacked the SHO, have been arrested in reference to the incident.

  • To beat Internet ban, khaps flip to temple loudspeakers in Haryana

    As Haryana authorities prolonged the cellular web suspension in state’s 17 districts for one more day “to prevent any disturbance of peace and public order”, the farmers protesting in opposition to the agri legal guidelines stumble on an ingenious thought to bypass the ban. They have determined to make use of temple loudspeakers to make their voice heard and make messages attain all of the villagers.
    During a panchayat, leaders of 17 khaps of Jind district determined to kind committees in every of the 306 villages through which they’ve affect to make sure fast response in case authorities makes any effort to forcibly take away protesters from dharna websites.
    The panchayat was held at Khatkar toll plaza on Jind-Patiala freeway through which a lot of ladies too participated.
    The new technique was formulated after the authorities made an abortive bid to take away farmers from Ghazipur border of Uttar Pradesh-Delhi Thursday night time.

    “If any such move is repeated anywhere, quick announcements will be made from the loudspeakers of village temples asking the farmers to gather. Not only this, thikri pehras will be undertaken by the farmers in villages to remain alert round the clock. We may plan blockage of roads, if the internet services are not restored early as the move is affecting online studies of students ahead of exams,” mentioned Azad Palwa, chief of Dhadan khap of Jind district. Palwa can also be Jind district president of the BKU. The agitators really feel that web providers have been suspended to test the rising agitation of farmers in Haryana.
    The khap chief additional mentioned, “The khaps have decided that nobody from 306 villages will invite BJP-JJP leaders in any events including marriage functions till the farmer agitation is going on and the government doesn’t repeal three farm laws.”
    The farmers in varied elements of the state have already introduced a social boycott of BJP-JJP leaders to specific their resentment in opposition to three controversial farm legal guidelines terming the identical as “anti-farmer”.
    “We have made it clear that no flag of any political party will be used during the farmers’ agitation. The farmers will either use Tricolour or flags of farmer unions during the agitation,” he added.
    Meanwhile, sources in Kandela khap have hinted that farmer chief Rakesh Tikait will attain Kandela village of Jind district on February 3 to deal with farmers there. Farmers at Kandela village had blocked Jind-Chandigarh freeway quickly after the authorities had tried to evacuate the farmers from Ghazipur border the place Tikait is main the agitation.
    On the opposite hand, the variety of farmer protesters has instantly elevated on the toll plazas on nationwide highways after the agitators smelled that the authorities could attempt to elevate their dharnas. Apart from Khatkar toll plaza, a lot of farmers joined the protesters at Kitlana toll plaza too which is located on Bhiwani-Mahendragarh nationwide freeway. The farmers had rushed to the toll plazas on Thursday night time too when the authorities have been planning to take away farmers from Ghazipur border.
    Notably, the motion of farmers has elevated to the borders of Delhi from Punjab and Haryana after the Ghazipur episode. For the complete day Saturday, motion of automobiles, together with tractors, was noticed on the Patiala-Jind-Rohtak-Delhi nationwide freeway.
    Sources mentioned a lot of farmers have rushed to Delhi borders in personal automobiles, primarily automobiles and jeeps as an alternative of tractor-trolleys. Tractor is a gradual transferring automobile whereas the farmers need to be part of the protesters instantly with a sense amongst them gaining floor that “different tactics” have been being adopted to take away agitators from Delhi borders.
    Internet suspended for one more day
    Haryana authorities Saturday prolonged the suspension of cellular web providers, all SMS providers (excluding banking and cellular recharge) and all dongle providers offered on cellular networks besides the voice calls in 17 districts — Ambala, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Kaithal, Panipat, Hisar, Jind, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Fatehabad, Rewari, Sirsa, Sonipat, Jhajjar and Palwal until 5 pm on January 31.
    “This order is issued to prevent any disturbance of peace and public order in the jurisdiction of these districts of Haryana and shall be in force with immediate effect. Any person who will be found guilty of violation of aforesaid order will be liable for legal action under relevant provisions,” a authorities spokesperson mentioned.
    “The authorities has determined to impose this suspension to cease the unfold of disinformation and rumours by means of varied social media platforms and SMS, for facilitation and mobilisation of mobs of agitators and demonstrators who may cause critical lack of life and harm to private and non-private properties by indulging in arson or vandalism and different forms of violent actions, the spokesperson added.
    The opposition Congress hit out on the authorities’s determination to droop cellular web providers.
    In a press release, Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed the web ban was ordered “with the intention to crush the farmers’ agitation” and demanded its rapid resumption.

    He mentioned the choice will have an effect on professionals working from dwelling because of the coronavirus pandemic, college students, merchants and shopkeepers and trigger inconvenience to the widespread individuals.
    “The BJP-JJP government has been so engrossed in its evil designs to crush and discredit the farmers’ agitation that it seems to be least bothered about the grave inconvenience being caused to the common people,” he mentioned.

    “This government should not be under any illusion to treat the peacefully agitating farmers as a vulnerable lot and the persecution of farmers shall not be tolerated under any circumstances and the entire opposition and the people of the country are in rock solid support with the farmers,” he mentioned.