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Farmers` union leaders at Singhu border will go on hunger strike on Dec 14
With anti-riot equipment, around 3,500 police personnel will be deployed at all five toll plazas in Faridabad, Haryana in view of the call given by agitating farmers to block toll plazas today.
Highlights
- Farmers gear up to block highways and picket toll plazas on the border to Delhi.
- 3,500 police personnel to be deployed at 5 toll plazas in Faridabad.
- The farmers protest against the agri laws entered the 17th day on Saturday.
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Delhi Police have installed security barricades on the Singhu border with chained locks so that the barricades cannot be removed. The police have placed dumper filled with mud first, then barricades and then cement barricades as security. After the barricades, there is a cache of RAF and BSF personnel deployed.
At New Delhi's Krishi Bhawan, several representatives of farmers organization met Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar and thanked him for the agricultural reforms and gave a memorandum demanding to not repeal of new farm laws.
All farmers’ leaders announce that they will to go on hunger strike on December 14.
Farmers on their way to Gurugram are still in Rajasthan's Shahjahanpur where they will be joined by other farmers tonight and on December 13 morning they will travel towards Delh.
Manesar DCP Nitika Gehlot told Zee News that there was intelligence inputs about farmers trying to shut down NH-8. She assured that the Gurugram Police is fully prepared and NH-8 will not be allowed to be blocked. More than 1000 policemen have been deployed. All the toll plazas are under police cover.
To stop farmers on their way to Delhi from Delhi-Jaipur Highway, the police is erecting iron and cement barricades, a crane is ready for the purpose. There is heavy police force deployment in Manesar.
Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait spoke on 'anti-national elements' in farmers' agitation as stated by the government. "Central Intelligence should catch them and put such people behind bars. We haven't found any such person here. If we do we'll send them away," he said.
The lawyers heading to Delhi borders said that they will extend their support as well as privide legal advice to them until they continue their agitation. They also stated that government passed the agri laws unanimously in the Rajya Sabha in order to give more benefits to traders, which is completely wrong.
Centre's trying to defame agitation by calling it that of Khalistanis and political parties. Unfortunate that if one disagrees with them they call them anti-nationals. Ministers giving such statements must apologise publicly. We condemn Centre's attitude and such statements: SAD chief
Unfortunate that Centre's trying to stifle the voices, instead of listening to them. Farmers don't want farm laws. Why is Centre showing tyranny when the section - for whom laws have been formed- don't want it? I request PM to listen to farmers: SS Badal, Shiromani Akali Dal chief
Hundreds of lawyers of Punjab and Haryana High Court are arriving at Delhi borders to support the farmers on the 17 days of 'Dilli Chalo' agitation. The lawyers are reaching at the borders to extend their support to farmers who are agitating against the central farm laws. The lawyers said that the government made the agri law but did not consult people associated with this section.
This is not the first time PM Modi spoke on the ongoing agitation of farmers against the farm laws. In his last 'Mann ki Baat' speech, the Prime Minister had stated that Parliament passed farm reform laws after rigorous brainstorming. "These reforms have not only broken shackles of farmers but have also given new rights and opportunities to them," PM Modi had said in Mann Ki Baat speech.
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Haryana: Farmers head to Delhi, to join the agitation at the borders of the national capital against central government's farm laws.
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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has hit out at opposition parties for allegedly leading the farmer’s movement towards disorientation, and said that the malicious efforts to spread disharmony in the country would not be tolerated.
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said that if the government wants to talk to farmer leaders, that should be formally conveyed like in previous occasions. "They (government) should first tell us when and where they want to meet us as they did for previous formal talks. If they invite us for talks, we will discuss that with our coordination committee and then take a decision," Tikait said.
With anti-riot equipment, around 3,500 police personnel will be deployed at all five toll plazas in Faridabad, Haryana in view of the call given by agitating farmers to block toll plazas today: Faridabad Police
Protesting farmers are gearing up to block more highways and picket toll plazas on the border to Delhi on Saturday against the three agricultural sector laws. The farmers have announced to block Delhi-Jaipur and Delhi-Agra highways on Saturday.
With farmers gearing up to block highways and picket toll plazas on the border to Delhi on Saturday (December 12) in response to a call from protesting farmer unions to intensify their agitation against the three agricultural sector laws, police personnel have been deployed in strength to protect toll booths and ensure smooth flow of traffic, Faridabad Police said.
As many as 3,500 police personnel will be deployed at the five toll plazas in the area, a statement said. Station house officers and the Police Reserve Force of the respective police stations will also be deployed and personnel will be equipped with anti-riot equipment. A drone will be on guard to keep an eye from above.
It said that police will keep a close watch on protestors who may disrupt law and order under the guise of the movement at the Badarpur Border, Gurugram Faridabad, Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal, Pali Crusher Zone and Dhauj toll plazas.
The government on Friday asked protesting farmers to be vigilant against their platform being misused, saying some 'anti-social' as well as 'Leftist and Maoist' elements are conspiring to spoil the atmosphere of the agitation even as the protesters stuck to their demands.
Photographs of some protesters at the Tikri border seen holding posters demanding release of activists arrested under various charges had gone viral, prompting Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to say that these 'anti-social elements' are conspiring to spoil the atmosphere of the peasants' movement under the guise of farmers.
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