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Highlights of the farmers’ protest: Hundreds of Punjab farmers gathered at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on Thursday to attend the “Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat. “The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a structure of 37 farmers’ unions, which called for “mahapanchayat” on February 22 at an assembly in Chandigarh, received a no-objection certificate for the demonstration from the Delhi police and the municipality. March 11th. . . . Read more
The Delhi police have allowed farmers to celebrate “mahapanchayat” on the condition that they exceed 5,000 people, no tractor cars are allowed and no march to Ramlila Maidan.
Delhi police officials also said they had asked SKM to limit the number of participants to 5,000, but expected more than 15,000 people to attend. For its part, SKM said more than 30,000 Punjab farmers are expected to succeed in the national capital.
Police also issued a traffic advisory for commuters on roads leading to central Delhi, they said.
Learn more about the Kisan Mahapanchayat at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan:
The “mahapanchayat” took a stand at a time when other farmers’ unions under the banner of Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and SKM (apolitical), splinter teams from the SKM, were staging sit-ins in Shambhu and Khanauri on 17 January. . The border between Punjab and Haryana in the last month after security forces disrupted their “Delhi Chalo” march.
-Farmers are asking for a law that guarantees the legal prestige of the MSP for their crops. In addition, they call for the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations regarding the MSP, pensions for farmers and agricultural workers, as well as the forgiveness of agricultural debts. .
– Although SKM was not part of the Delhi Chalo march, it supported dissident teams at both sites.
According to the SKM, farmers would adopt a “Sankalp Patra” or “letter of resolution” to the Mahapanchayat to accentuate the struggle against the “pro-corporate, communal and dictatorial policies of the Modi government, to combat and save agriculture, food, security, livelihoods and other people from the looting of businesses.
At the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, I participated in the Mahapanchayat peasant-worker organized at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, together with all the leaders of the SKM. Today, the country’s farmers are suffering the consequences of the government’s policy and dictatorship: Rakesh Tikait, BKU spokesperson
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has revealed his party’s “five guarantees” for farmers if elected in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
According to a February 2020 Business Today report, the historic Ramlila land in the capital accommodates around 1. 25 lakh people.
Live updates on farmers’ protests: The three farm laws, which sparked unprecedented farmer protests that lasted more than a year, were repealed by the Narendra Modi-led initiative in 2021.
These laws include: the Agricultural Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, the Farmers’ Price Insurance and Agricultural Services Agreement Act (empowerment and protection), and the Essential Commodities Act (amendment).
• The Agricultural Trade and Trade Act allows farmers to sell their produce outdoors at APMC markets, allowing authorized investors to buy at agreed-upon prices, exempt from state mandi taxes.
• The Farmers’ Agreement Act on Price Insurance and Agricultural Services for contract farming and unrestricted marketing of agricultural products through farmers.
• The Essential Products Amendment Act revises the Essentials Act, freeing up for trade certain commodities such as food grains, pulses, edible oils, and onions, in times of crisis.
Live updates from the farmers’ protest: Vehicles were moving slowly, causing traffic jams at ITO, Delhi Gate, Daryaganj and National Highway 24 near Sarai Kale Khan, as well as elsewhere amid farmers’ “mahapanchayat” piled up at Ramlila Ground in the national capital.
“We have diversion plans with the traffic police,” the officer previously said.
The Delhi Traffic Police has issued a notice alerting travellers to traffic rules and directional detours.
The statement states that traffic will be regulated from 6 a. m. to 4 p. m. in-
Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Barakhamba Road, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, Tolstoy Marg, Asaf Ali Road, Jai Singh Road, Swami Vivekananda Marg, Sansad Marg, Netaji Subhas Marg, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Minto Road, Ashoka Road, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh Overpass, Connaught Circus, Bhavbhuti Marg, DDU Marg and Chaman Lal Marg.
Thousands of farmers continue to protest at the border between Punjab and Haryana, where they have been camping since February 13, when their march to Delhi was blocked by Haryana police and paramilitary forces.
There have been rounds of clashes between the two sides.
Live updates on farmers’ protests: Amid the gigantic rally on Ramlila Maidan in the national capital on Thursday, speaking to the media from the protest site, Bharatiya Kusan trade union leader Rakesh Tikait said: “An assembly was held here and the government got a message that ‘The country’s farmers are united. The government will have to resolve the challenge through dialogue, this turmoil is not going to stop. “
Live updates on the farmers’ protest: Congress leader and Wayanad Lok Sabha representative Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reaffirmed the party’s commitment to offer a legal guarantee for the minimum value (MSP) based on the recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee’s report. He pointed out that a small fraction of Americans in the country own wealth equivalent to that of citizens of 70 crore and accused Narendra Modi’s government of forgiving 16 crore of debt incurred through industrialists.
“This amount is equivalent to 24 years of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), under which 35 billion rupees are spent to give away paintings to the poor,” Gandhi said.
Farmers’ Protest Live Updates: Farmers are staging a large-scale protest to force the Center to accept their demands.
• Farmers’ organizations are pushing for the adoption of a law guaranteeing a minimum value (MSP), a precondition set in 2021 when they agreed to end their campaign against the now-repealed farm laws.
• In addition, farmers are pushing for the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pensions for farmers and agricultural workers, and the cancellation of agricultural debts.
• It is also not easy for farmers to get the Centre to deliver “justice” for those affected by the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri.
Farmers’ Protest Updates: Speaking at a farmers’ rally at Krishi Utapann Bazaar Samiti in Nashik as part of his excursion to Maharashtra for Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said: “Farmers’ disorders, inflation, unemployment and agniveers are the top of the list in the country today, But on TV channels you’ll never see a discussion about those issues. “
“Instead, TV channels broadcast Modi ji 24 hours a day; Sometimes he goes under the sea to make a bid and a TV camera goes with him, and then he takes a seaplane flight. . . ,” he said.
“Then everyone will go to the Chinese border and the media will stick to him. Then the COVID-19 pandemic will come and we will be clapping and making noise with the utensils. He will make everyone dance,” said the Wayanad deputy.
Traffic jams broke out in central Delhi in preparation for a farmers’ “mahapanchayat” assembly at Ramlila Ground.
Vehicles have been observed moving at a snail’s pace, leading to traffic jams at ITO, Delhi Gate, and Daryaganj, among other places in the capital, PTI reports.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that if the opposition alliance INDIA is elected to power, it will be the “voice of the farmers” and expand policies towards them. “The government of the INDIA alliance will be the voice of farmers and will try to defend their interests. “Gandhi said, according to the PTI.
Gandhi addresses a farmers’ rally in Chandwad, Nashik district, Maharashtra, along with Supreme Sharad Pawar of the CPN (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a grouping of farmers’ groups, is organizing a “Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat” at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.
– While the Delhi police allowed the farmers’ demonstration on the condition that the mahapanchayat had no more than 5,000 participants, the SKM said it expects more than 50,000 farmers in Punjab to register for the event.
In view of the mahapanchayat, traffic jams have been reported in the spaces around Ramlila Maidan. The Delhi Traffic Police has already issued a notice alerting travellers to traffic rules and directional detours.
Congress Secretary-General Jairam Ramesh said that while the Center has allowed farmers to hold a Mahapanchayat on Ramlila Maidan, it does not aim to address their concerns. “Before, farmers were treated with tear gas, but now the government is under pressure. Finally, they (the farmers) were given permission to celebrate their ‘Mahapanchayat’,” Ramesh told ANI.
Live updates on farmers’ protests: Harman Singh, a farmer from Patiala, Punjab, says farmers need the BJP-led central government’s policies to be farmer-friendly. “We need the Center’s policies to be farmer-friendly. We also need our call for an MSP (minimum price) to be met on crops,” he told PTI.
Farmers protest live updates: Farmers demand a law that guarantees the legal prestige of the MSP for their crops.
In addition, they call for the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations regarding the MSP, pensions for farmers and agricultural workers, as well as the forgiveness of agricultural debts.
Live updates from farmers’ protests: Farmers gathered in gigantic numbers at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to attend the ‘Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat’ and protest against the policies of the BJP-led Centre. Farmers raised slogans opposed to the Center at the protest site, PTI reported.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police have issued a traffic advisory urging travellers to drive on the roads leading to central Delhi due to the ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’.
Live updates on farmers’ protests: “The government has responded to the demands of farmers and staff so far,” Bhartiya Kisan (Chaduni) union president Gurnam Singh Chaduni told PTI as he left Kurukshetra for Delhi.
Farmers’ protest Live updates: Bhartiya Kisan (BKWU) trade union leader Rakesh Tikait says a law guaranteeing MSP to farmers is a major factor and primary upheaval is needed in the country for it.
“Our leaders here will talk about it and then we will announce their resolution. The MSP Guarantee Act is a problem. Whatever resolution is adopted today, the other people gathered here will report it to the other people in their respective towns, cities, and states. There is a need for major unrest in the country,” Tikait told PTI.
Live updates from farmers’ protests: Heavy reported in Noida as police increase security ahead of ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ to be held at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, PTI reports.
Live updates on farmers’ protests: Farmers are at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to celebrate the ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ to press for their demands, the MSP Act.
Live updates from farmers’ protests: Security has been beefed up near Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, where farmers are expected to hold the ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ later in the day, PTI reports.
Updates on farmers’ protests: Bhartiya Kisan (Tikait) trade union leader Hoshiar Singh says they are in Delhi to remind the central government of the promises he made at the Delhi protest.
“The central government had made some promises during our protest in Delhi. However, none of those promises have been fulfilled so far. So we have come here to remind the government that promises will have to be kept and that farmers will have to be treated fairly. their crops,” Hoshiar Singh told PTI.
Farmers’ protest Live updates: Security forces at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi in front of the ‘Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat’.
Live updates on farmers’ protests: Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Wednesday warned commuters about traffic slowing down on some roads due to the “Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat” running through farmers in Delhi.
Police said diversions could be made on routes in Noida, near Delhi’s borders, where “intensive” checks on cars would be carried out before allowing them to pass into the national capital, according to the PTI. More information here.
It is also very likely that teams of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh will participate in the programme. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait claimed that police officers had entered the farmers’ homes to prevent them from travelling to Delhi, and warned officials not to take such measures.
BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) General Secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said a nationwide protest would most likely be announced at the Mahapanchayat against the central government’s “anti-peasant and pro-business approach. “
Manjit Dhaner, leader of the Dhaner faction of the BKU (Ekta-Dakaunda), which is part of the SKM, said more than 30,000 Punjab farmers are expected to succeed in the national capital.
On the other hand, Delhi police officials said they had asked SKM to limit the number of participants to 5,000, but that they expected more than 15,000 people to attend.
Bharatiya Kisan (Sidhupur) union president Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh (KMSC) committee chairman Sarwan Singh Pandher said on Wednesday that their unions would not participate in the Samyukta Kisan union’s mahapanchayat in Ramlila. Maidan in Delhi on Thursday.
“We are already protesting at two borders (Shambhu and Khanauri). We will not participate in their (SKM) protest,” Pandher said. Read.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Mr. Harsha Vardhan told PTI that farmers are allowed to attend the “mahapanchayat” with a gathering of less than 5,000 people.
He said the farmers had promised to come with tractors, unarmed, and also promised that they would hold any marches in Delhi.
Traffic could be disrupted in parts of the country’s capital due to the farmers’ demonstration on Ramlila Maidan on Thursday, police said.
Gautam Buddh Nagar police also warned travelers about slowing down traffic on the Noida-Delhi highways due to the protest assignment of farmers in Delhi. Here are the routes to avoid.
Hundreds of farmers from Punjab arrived in Delhi to attend the “Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat” on Ramlila Maidan on Thursday. The Delhi police allowed farmers to celebrate “mahapanchayat” on the condition that they did not gather more than 5,000 people or tractor cars. and no march to Ramlila Maidan.
It is also very likely that teams of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh will participate in the programme. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait claimed that police officers had entered the farmers’ homes to prevent them from travelling to Delhi, and warned officials not to take such measures.
BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said a nationwide protest was likely to be announced at the Mahapanchayat against the central government’s “anti-peasant and pro-business approach. “
Manjit Dhaner, leader of the Dhaner faction of the BKU (Ekta-Dakaunda), which is part of the SKM, said more than 30,000 Punjab farmers are expected to succeed in the national capital.
On the other hand, Delhi police officials said they had asked SKM to limit the number of participants to 5,000, but that they expected more than 15,000 people to attend.
Bharatiya Kisan (Sidhupur) union president Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh (KMSC) committee chairman Sarwan Singh Pandher said on Wednesday that their unions would not participate in the Samyukta Kisan union’s mahapanchayat in Ramlila. Maidan in Delhi on Thursday.
“We are already protesting at two borders (Shambhu and Khanauri). We will not participate in their (SKM) protest,” Pandher said. Read.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central), Mr. Harsha Vardhan, told PTI that farmers are allowed to attend the “mahapanchayat” with a gathering of less than 5,000 people.
He said the farmers had promised to come with tractors, unarmed, and also promised that they would hold any marches in Delhi.
Traffic could be disrupted in parts of the country’s capital due to the farmers’ demonstration on Ramlila Maidan on Thursday, police said.
Gautam Buddh Nagar police also warned travelers about slowing down traffic on the Noida-Delhi highways due to the protest assignment of farmers in Delhi. Here are the routes to avoid.
Hundreds of farmers from Punjab arrived in Delhi to attend the “Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat” on Ramlila Maidan on Thursday. The Delhi police allowed farmers to celebrate “mahapanchayat” on the condition that they did not gather more than 5,000 people or tractor cars. and no march to Ramlila Maidan.