Major farmers’ meet in Shamli as clamour against farm laws grows in western U.P.
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Thousands of farmers turned up for a gathering in Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh on Friday amid a growing clamour against the Centre’s agri-marketing laws in the area.
People from Shamli and close by districts began reaching Shamli’s Bhainswal village on tractors, two- and four-wheelers and on foot for a ‘kisan panchayat’ being held there by the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).
The folks gathered there regardless of the Shamli administration denying permission for the assembly and imposing prohibitory orders underneath part 144 of the CrPC.
This is the fourth main farmers’ assembly in western Uttar Pradesh after Muzaffarnagar, Mathura and Baghpat, apart from some in Haryana, to help the continued stir against the farm laws.
Scores of regional ‘khap’ leaders, Bharatiya Kisan Union members and RLD vp Jayant Chaudhary, amongst others, attended the occasion, even as safety personnel have been deployed in massive quantity in the world.
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Mr. Chaudhary had on Thursday tweeted that there are “144 the explanation why I’ll go to Shamli tomorrow”, attaching to it a information article on the denial of permission for the occasion by the Shamli district administration.
The RLD has already prolonged help to the continued peasants’ demonstrations at Delhi’s borders and in components of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
The social gathering’s farmer outreach programmes which started Friday in Shamli are additional scheduled to be held in Amroha, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Mathura, Agra, Hathras, Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh and a few them in Rajasthan in the course of the February month.
