Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday drove a tractor to reach Parliament to protest against the three farm laws. Rahul was, however, not allowed to enter the Parliament premises on the tractor. Security officials at the entrance stopped him as vehicles having valid passes are allowed to enter the Parliament Complex.
Meenakshi Lekhi has called the protesting farmers 'mawali' after they reached Jantar Mantar in Delhi to further intensify their agitation against farm laws.
Following a nod from the Delhi Police, the farmers have begin their protest against the Centre and its three farm laws at the Jantar Mantar, demanding the scrapping of the Acts. The farmers have said that a demonstration would be held at Jantar Mantar daily from 11 am to 5 pm in accordance with appropriate COVID-19 norms, adding that the stir would be peaceful.
After initial resistance, police took farmers inside a resort to count their numbers before escorting them to protest venue. Only 206 allowed each day as per conditions.
Delhi: 200 farmers to hold protest at Jantar mantar today from 11:00am to 5 pm against farm law. The protesters held meeting with Delhi Police officials on Tuesday, after which a farmer leader said they will hold peaceful demonstrations at Jantar Mantar, and no protester will go to Parliament.
The Delhi Police on Wednesday gave permission to farmers to stage demonstrations at Jantar Mantar demanding scrapping of the Agri laws during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament, official sources said. They said farmers will travel to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border in buses with police escort.
Ahead of a planned protest by farmers in front of Parliament during its Monsoon Session, officials of Delhi Police officials will meet a delegation of farmers on Sunday.
Bhartiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on July 14 said that the protest planned outside Parliament during Monsoon session will be peaceful, c200 people will go there(towards Parliament) by bus. We'll pay the fare.
A group of farmers in Haryana's Yamuna nagar jump over the police barricading while protesting against State Cabinet Minister Mool Chand Sharma regarding new farm laws
For the last seven months, the farmers protesting against the agriculture law. On Wednesday morning, BJP workers reached inside the farmers' movement site at the UP Gate, after which a fight broke out between them and the farmers.
Farmers protesting at the Ghazipur border in Delhi on Wednesday resorted to violence when they attacked BJP workers as they arrived here to welcome Amit Valmiki. Valmiki was recently appointed as secretary of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been leading the farmer’s protest at Ghazipur border, told reporters that farmers’ union has decided to hold two more rallies, and planned a tractor rally for July 9, which is scheduled to reach Singhu border on July 10
A year since it began, the farmers’ protest in Punjab has now acquired a larger space. Interestingly, it may be for the first time that the state government is supporting the farmers’ movement against the Central government. Not only this, the movement is being supported by all political parties in the state, except the BJP.
On Saturday, the representatives of farmers seek to submit memoranda to governors in various states. The memorandums to be forwarded to President Ram Nath Kovind would be given to mark the completion of seven months of farmers' agitation against the three Central legislations, Bharatiya Kisan Union's all-India president Naresh Tikait had said on Friday while addressing the farmers after leading a rally of 100 tractors from Muzaffarnagar to the UP Gate protest site on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghaziabad.
Farmers have been protesting against the three farm laws. They have been camping at Delhi borders since November last year, demanding the withdrawal of these three laws and that a new law be made to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for their crops.
A large number of farmers, including from Uttar Pradesh, is expected to join protesters at Delhi's border points on June 26 to mark seven months of their agitation against the three agri laws enacted last year.
Thousands of farmers tractor headed for Delhi border from UP
The deceased, Mukesh, reportedly told his brother and a villager that he had been drinking with four men who claimed to be part of the farmers' protest and they set him on fire.
A man was burnt to death allegedly by a group of farmers protesting against the farm laws near Tikri border in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh on Wednesday. One of the accused, Krishan, has been arrested.
A Haryana man died of burn injuries after four men at Tikri border, farmers' protest site, sprinkled inflammable material over him and set him afire.
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