Police use barbed wire, spikes, trenches to cut off protest sites
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Government is treating us like invaders, says farm chief; SC panel but to meet unions
Delhi has been became a fortress because the police continued to block entry to border protest sites on Tuesday with concrete barricades, barbed wire, nails and trenches throughout strategy roads, and undertook large deployment of safety personnel. Journalists and other visitors were denied entry to the Singhu border website, and Internet connections stay suspended.
“The government has turned these protest sites into open air prisons. They are treating farmers like foreign invaders. Even the British did not do that,” stated P. Krishnaprasad, a frontrunner of the All India Kisan Sabha.
On February 6, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) will organise a nationwide, three-hour freeway blockade, to protest in opposition to the police actions, he stated.
Situation ‘very hot’
In this ambiance, the Supreme Court-appointed committee is ready to maintain its third assembly on Wednesday, however is but to meet with any of the protesting unions because the state of affairs is “very hot”, in accordance to one of many members of the committee.
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Farm unions have condemned the police repression and arrests. The SKM has arrange a authorized desk to assist the 115 protesters who’ve been arrested and at the moment are in jail, in addition to the 29 protesting farmers who’re nonetheless lacking after Republic Day.
At a late evening press convention, the SKM crew alleged that these in jail confronted torture and had not been despatched for medical examination.
The legal professionals would file habeas corpus petitions for manufacturing of the lacking individuals with assistance from the Delhi authorities’s Home Ministry, stated Rajinder Deep Singh Wala of the Kirti Kisan Union.
He added that each one these arrested, whether or not or not they caught to the deliberate route for the tractor parade would obtain assist. Apart from this, greater than 160 folks have died for the reason that agitation started over two months in the past.
In a written response to a query raised by 28 Members of Parliament within the Lok Sabha, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar stated the Centre doesn’t suggest to give any compensation to the households of farmers who’ve died through the ongoing agitation in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines. In response to one other query on whether or not the federal government has any plan to repeal the legal guidelines, Mr. Tomar solely stated, “The recent farmers Reform Laws implementation has been stayed, at present by Hon’ble Supreme Court.”
With tensions working excessive, Pramod Kumar Joshi, a member of the SC-appointed committee informed The Puucho that his panel was but to strategy any of the protesting unions.
“They have already said they will not participate in our proceedings. We will definitely write letters to them, and will also call them and convince them to talk to us as we are not the government,” stated Dr. Joshi.
“But we thought that let us settle down things, then only we will approach them. Right now, the situation is very hot, so we thought let us avoid that at this stage. Later on, we will do it,” he added, when requested concerning the affect of the barricades, arrests and excessive tensions on their consultations.
However, he added, “We have our jobs, we are doing our job. We are not being affected.” The panel plans to maintain three extra conferences with different farmers teams this week.
The Ghazipur protest website on the border with Uttar Pradesh has been boxed in by multi-layer barricading. In the midst of the steel and concrete barricades, Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait stated farmers had dug in with the dedication to keep till subsequent October or November if want be, and have enough provides being despatched from their villages to assist them till the Centre withdraws the three contentious agriculture reform legal guidelines. Mr. Tikait intends to deal with a mahapanchayat in Haryana’s Jind district tomorrow, the place additional mobilisation of farmers is happening.
On the Haryana border at Singhu as effectively, farmers stated they’ve arrange provide strains with ten villages and are getting ready for the lengthy haul. The new police restrictions have additionally pressured farmers to scramble to arrange new amenities for sanitation.
