Farmers from Punjab have introduced that they may march to Delhi this week to demand a dialogue on Minimal Help Worth (MSP). Police has put up barricades and points advisory for commuters travelling from Noida to Delhi at the moment, as the primary group of farmers, led by the Bhartiya Kisan Parishad (BKP), will start their march at the moment.
Visitors jam on the Delhi-Noida Chilla border after the police put up barricades.(Sunil Ghosh/HT Picture)
The protesting farmers will begin their march from the Maha Maya flyover in Noida at midday. Images from the spot confirmed large visitors jams on the street resulting in Delhi.
Huge visitors jam in Noida on the street resulting in Delhi.(Sunil Ghosh/HT Picture)
The farmers, beneath the banners of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM), have been protesting on the Shambhu and Khanauri border factors between Punjab and Haryana since February 13, after their try to march to Delhi was blocked by safety forces.
Extra farmers will be part of the protest from December 6, with the march continuing every day from 9 am to five pm. The agitating farmers will spend the nights on the street.
Cops have put up barricades on most roads main from Noida to Delhi.(Sunil Ghosh/HT Picture) What the farmers are demanding
Addressing the media on Sunday, Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) chief Sarwan Singh Pandher mentioned farmers have been protesting at Shambhu and Khanauri for 293 days.
He criticized the BJP-led authorities, stating that it has not engaged in any talks with the farmers since February 18. He accused the Centre of avoiding dialogue and reaffirmed that the farmers reject contract farming, demanding as a substitute a authorized assure on the MSP for crops.
A cop places up barricades close to the Okhla chicken sanctuary forward of the farmers march.(Sunil Ghosh/HT Picture)
A 3-member panel of Union ministers – Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal, and Nityanand Rai – had met with farmer representatives on February 18, however the farmers rejected the Centre’s proposal to buy pulses, maize, and cotton on the MSP for 5 years.
Moreover a authorized assure on the MSP, the protesters are demanding farm mortgage waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike within the electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police instances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.
Guramneet Singh Mangat, one other farmer chief, talked about that when the primary group of farmers begins its march in direction of Delhi on December 6, different farmer our bodies in Kerala, Uttarakhand, and Tamil Nadu may even stage marches in direction of their respective state assemblies.