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Bharat Bandh: Farmers are protesting throughout a number of states.
New Delhi:
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated at present that the BJP-led NDA authorities had created historical past with the farm legal guidelines. Small and marginal farmers would profit most from the reforms, the Prime Minister stated. He additionally hit out on the opposition for “deceptive” farmers, and stated: “Those that lied to farmers are capturing from their shoulders”.
- Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi each tweeted in opposition to the farm payments at present. Mrs Gandhi Vadra stated: “They (the farmers) might be compelled to turn out to be slaves of trillions via contract farming.” Mr Gandhi stated: “… The brand new agriculture legal guidelines will enslave our farmers”.
- In poll-bound Bihar, opposition chief Tejashwi Yadav took half in a tractor rally to protest the farm payments. In visuals shared by information company ANI, the RJD chief might be seen slowly driving a blue tractor down a essential highway in Patna as a big crowd of farmers, marshalled by armed policemen, march alongside. The visuals present no less than 4 or 5 different tractors behind Mr Yadav as the complete chain inches its method ahead.
- A “complete shutdown” of Punjab has been known as for by the 31 farmers’ teams protesting within the state underneath the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) banner. Extra police personnel have been deployed to take care of legislation and order, officers stated. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh stated the Congress-led state authorities supported the farmers and no FIRs could be registered for violation of prohibitory orders.
- The Punjab-Haryana border has been sealed close to Ambala – a key border crossing between the 2 states. Police barricades have additionally been arrange on the NH-1 toll plaza on the Ladowal Toll Plaza in Ludhiana and police in Chandigarh are on excessive alert. Farmers teams have additionally begun protesting alongside the Faridkot-Kotkapura freeway.
- On Thursday farmers in Punjab began a three-day rail blockade and squatted on tracks at a number of locations within the state, together with Amritsar and Firozpur districts. The protests by farmers’ teams embody a march by girls members of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee.
- In Uttar Pradesh, escalating protests in opposition to the payments have led to the Ayodhya-Lucknow freeway being blocked. Farmers have additionally blocked the Delhi-Meerut freeway close to Ghaziabad to protest in opposition to the payments. Farmers from the state’s Kheri district have additionally gathered in protest.
- Police have been deployed within the Chilla space close to the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, amid considerations that the farmers will march into the nationwide capital to proceed their protests.
- Elements of the Delhi-Amritsar freeway have reportedly been blocked and the Delhi-Haryana border can also be more likely to be sealed, with police within the nationwide capital on excessive alert.
- Within the south, members of the Karnataka State Farmers’ Affiliation held a protest close to Bommanahalli on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu freeway. Round 250 farmers have been taken into preventive custody at Mysore Financial institution Circle in Bengaluru.
With enter from PTI