Farmers have right to protest but cannot block roads indefinitely: Supreme Court
India | October 21, 2021 13:39 ISTThe apex court said that 'farmers have right to protest but they cannot block roads indefinitely.'
The apex court said that 'farmers have right to protest but they cannot block roads indefinitely.'
In a statement, the umbrella body of farmer unions spearheading the farmers' agitation against the Centre's three agri laws, said "protests will only be intensified until justice is secured" in the Lakhimpur Kheri case.
Official sources said the party's campaign for the assembly elections will come up for extensive discussion in the meeting.
On three people allegedly being lynched after five people, including four farmers, were mowed down by an SUV, Tikait said the act was committed by a crowd as a "reaction" to the incident.
The latest notice warns Ashish Mishra that if he fails to appear on Saturday, legal action would be initiated against him.
Life in parts of India, particularly Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh, was disrupted as Bharat Bandh got underway with protesters blocking highways and key roads.
Delhi and Haryana police have issued advisory in view of the 'Bharat Bandh' call given by various farmer organisations.
A senior police officer said in view of bandh, adequate security arrangements will be made to maintain the law an order situation in the national capital on Monday.
Bharat Bandh on September 27: SKM has appealed to all organisations of workers, traders, transporters, businessmen, students, youth and women and all social movements to extend solidarity with the farmers that day.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and elsewhere have been sitting at Delhi's borders for nearly 10 months demanding the repeal of the laws.
Shiromani Akali Dal is protesting against the three farm laws in Delhi. However, this has led to heavy traffic jam across several localities of Delhi, where commuters are facing a lot of problems.
Leading the protest against Lekhi, Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas B V said "the comments towards the food givers of the country are highly condemnable".
Earlier too, Haryana CM had hinted at a crackdown on elements indulging in “inappropriate incidents, especially against women” during the ongoing farmers’ agitation.
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.
Vij further slammed Congress for supporting farmers and said Congress supports all those who want to destroy the unity and integrity of the nation.
As per the official sources, intelligence agencies have alerted Delhi police and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) that Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) proxies may wreck the proposed farmers' protest on June 26 (today) by instigating the deployed security forces.
Farmers have announced a sit-in at Raj Bhavans across the country on June 26.
The protest comes even as Punjab, Haryana and Delhi are observing a lockdown due to the prevailing Covid-19 situation.
"Just as we, in India, can discuss say the Palestine-Israel issue as we've done in the past or we can discuss if we so choose any other domestic issue of a foreign country, British Parliament has the same right," said Tharoor, who was also MoS External Affairs during the UPA regime.
On the occasion, he flagged off a tractors' rally, which, he said, will travel across districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and will reach farmers'' protest site in Ghazipur on March 27.
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