Tractor rally violence | Punjab CM orders high alert
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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh termed unacceptable the violence perpetrated by certain elements during the tractor rally in Delhi on Tuesday and urged all real farmers to right away vacate Delhi and return to the borders, the place they’d been protesting peacefully for the previous two months.
The Chief Minister ordered a high alert the State amid the stress and violence in Delhi and directed Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta to make sure that legislation and order within the state just isn’t disturbed at any value.
Expressing grave concern over the state of affairs, the Chief Minister mentioned the violence was apparently triggered by some individuals who violated the foundations laid down for the tractor march by means of mutual settlement between the Delhi Police and the farmer unions. It was unlucky that these components disturbed the peaceable agitation of farmers, he mentioned, condemning the incidents that befell on the historic Red Fort and another key factors of the nationwide capital.
‘Get back to camps’
Captain Amarinder identified that the foremost farmer leaders had and categorically dissociated themselves from the violence. He mentioned the agitating farmers ought to instantly vacate the nationwide capital and get again to their camps on the borders, and proceed to interact with the Centre to resolve the disaster over the farm legal guidelines.
Meanwhile, dismissing allegations of it being concerned in hoisting flags at the Red Fort in Delhi, Punjab-based Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee (KMSC) mentioned the unlucky ‘flag-hoisting’ episode was carried on by anti-social components.
“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,” Sarvan Singh Pandher, its normal secretary, informed The Hindu.
“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, which we did and most of us have now returned to Singhu-Kundli border,” he mentioned.
On Monday, the KMSC declared that it might maintain a tractor parade on the outer ring highway despite the fact that it was not one of many routes, authorised by the Delhi Police.
The KMSC just isn’t a part of the group of 32 farmer unions from Punjab. It, nevertheless, has been working in coordination with all farmer outfits, together with the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, in the direction of getting the farm legal guidelines revoked.
The KMSC is the outfit, which continues to be persevering with with the ‘rail roko’ agitation and never permitting motion of passenger trains in Amritsar. All the opposite agitating farmer organisations had lifted rail blockade of passenger and items trains on November 24 in Punjab.
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