Maharashtra: ‘Rasta rokos’ in Karad, Kolhapur; farmers detained
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At least 40 protesters, together with senior Congress chief Prithviraj Chavan’s spouse Satvasheela Chavan and farmers, have been detained by the police.
‘Rasta rokos’ have been staged in Karad and Kolhapur cities in Maharashtra on Saturday as a part of the ‘chakka jam’ protest referred to as by farmer our bodies agitating at borders of New Delhi towards the three new farm legal guidelines.
At least 40 protesters, together with senior Congress chief Prithviraj Chavan’s spouse Satvasheela Chavan and farmers, have been detained by the police for holding the protest on a busy highway at Kolhapur Naka in Karad in western Maharashtra this afternoon, a police official mentioned.
They have been detained beneath sections 68 and 69 of the Mumbai Police Act and launched, he mentioned.
As per farmer unions, the ‘chakka jam’ contains blocking nationwide and state highways between 12 midday and three pm o protest the web ban in areas close to their agitation websites, harassment allegedly meted out to them by authorities, and different points.
In Kolhapur metropolis, additionally in western Maharashtra, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna chief Raju Shetti led a protest towards the farm legal guidelines.
Shetti and a few farmers have been detained for staging a ‘rasta roko’ at Dabholkar Chowk in afternoon. They have been launched later, an area police official mentioned.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting at Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh demanding the rollback of the 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.
The protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that these legal guidelines would pave the way in which for the dismantling of the minimal assist worth system, leaving them on the mercy of massive companies.
However, the federal government has maintained that the legal guidelines will guarantee higher alternatives for farmers and produce in new applied sciences in agriculture.
