Farmers’ protests | Union leaders play blame recreation, vow to continue protest

There was loads of finger-pointing as farm union leaders rushed to distance themselves from the protestors participating in clashes with police and rampaging round Red Fort on Tuesday, however a number of admitted that the violence might weaken their trigger.

The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, a defiant Punjab union which was the primary to break from the agreed route, blamed “anti-social elements”.

“We strongly condemned the incident. It’s an act of anti-social elements. We never had any plan to go to the Red fort and stage any kind of protest over there. The aim of these anti-social elements seems to weaken the ongoing farmers’ movement,” stated KMSC normal secretary Sarvan Singh Pandher. “If our outfit would have planned to go to the Red fort, the key leaders would have led from the front. But we did not have any such plans. We had only planned to hold tractor parade on the outer ring road,” he added.

All India Kisan Sabha normal secretary Hannan Mollah, who’s a part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha management that has been negotiating with the federal government, blamed the KMSC in addition to a “rogue criminal element” for betraying the farmers.

“We condemn such action. It is not that farmers are out of control. Some rogue criminal elements are causing the problem. There is a conspiracy to give a bad name to farmers,” he advised The Hindu, noting that protesting farmers have carried out a peaceable agitation for the final seven months because the three legal guidelines had been initially introduced in as ordinances.

The SKM famous that peaceable protests had been held in lots of components of the nation on Tuesday, together with tractor parades in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Bihar. Even in Delhi, nearly all of tractors caught to the agreed routes, whereas 1000’s of others weren’t even in a position to depart the protest websites. 

“If you look all across the country, there may be over a crore people on the streets. There are a few hundred who are breaking rules here. The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee are not a main part of the movement,” stated Mr. Mollah. “Those farmers who are doing this are betrayers to the farmers’ cause. Someone who is breaking the rules like this, causing disturbance, actually helps the government to win, and they cannot be called part of the movement…Putting up a flag at Red Fort was never the aim for farmers. We want to get the government to listen to our demands. This is not helpful for that aim,” he added.

BKU-Tikait chief Rakesh Tikait, who led the group on the Ghazipur border blamed the extended battle for greater than six months, and the protests of greater than two months on the borders of Delhi as a cause for the scenario. He additionally blamed the Delhi Police for the farmers’ preliminary deviation from the agreed route, saying that as a result of barricades weren’t positioned on the proper areas, tractors obtained misplaced and by accident wandered into Delhi. “As a result, undesirable elements and some organizations got a chance and tried their best to disrupt this parade. BKU disassociates itself from those involved in this act,” he stated, including that BKU would work to determine the disruptive parts. “The farmers union has always believed in a peaceful movement. BKU never has and will not engage in any violent display or act affecting national symbols,” he stated.

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At the Shahjahanpur border, the place the parade ran easily, Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav initially posted a video pleading with protestors within the metropolis not to tarnish the motion. Later within the night, he stated he would take duty. “Being a part of the protest, I feel ashamed of the way things proceeded and I take responsibility of it,” he told a television channel. “Violence impacts any sort of protest in a flawed means. Only if the motion goes peacefully, we shall be in a position to win,” he stated.