Medha Patkar and farm leaders stopped by UP Police at Rajasthan border
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An All India Kisan Sabha contingent of 250 protestors from Gwalior can be set to achieve the identical level on Thursday morning
A contingent of farm leaders and protestors from Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra have been stopped by the Uttar Pradesh Police at the Rajasthan border late Wednesday evening, and prevented from getting into UP on their option to be part of the Dilli Chalo protest.
The group of 152 protestors, led by Medha Patkar and Pratibha Shinde of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, spent the evening sitting on the freeway, surrounded by police officers. An All India Kisan Sabha contingent of 250 protestors from Gwalior can be set to achieve the identical level on Thursday morning.
“They have not shown us any section of the law or shown any order why we are being detained. We have not been provided any food or water or any other facility,” stated Ms. Patkar, in a press release issued within the early hours of Thursday.
In a video message, she added that the Agra SP informed them they have been being blocked on the idea of orders from the upper authorities, and that he wouldn’t be capable of do something till Thursday night.
The UP Police urged that the group use an extended route by means of Rajasthan to achieve the Haryana border as an alternative. “This will take 200-250 km extra. We are not foreign funded organisations to spend this much money, and why should we? They can always escort us from this border to that border, and not maybe allow us to remain in UP,” stated Ms. Patkar. “But they are instead giving a wrong message, which is anti-farmer…They are not giving any reasoning, they are not even asking us where we want to go and what are we going to do there, what kind of action. We have categorically conveyed to them that we are non-violent satyagrahis.”
“The repressive action of Govt. of UP is condemnable and we would like to ask the Govt. of Rajasthan as to what is their duty towards us when we are illegally stopped by UP Police and we are compelled to sit on Satyagrah on highway itself,” added the assertion.
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