3 The strike demonstrations of farmers of many states including Punjab and Haryana have entered the 8th day to demand the withdrawal of the Central Agricultural Laws. At the same time, the farmers of Madhya Pradesh, who are going to travel to Delhi, have camped on NH 19 since Friday morning, because the Palwal Police has stopped the farmers before the KMP Express. Hundreds of farmers on the tractor-trolley are on the highway. At the same time, police is also present on the spot by barricading with the water canon. Farmers are staying on NH-19 since Thursday evening. Meanwhile, about a kilometer before the Singhu border, the police have put up a large number of barricades. Barricades are being loaded in trucks. Right now traffic is coming from one line on both sides. On the Delhi-Faridabad Badarpur border, the police have also installed barricades and barbed wire on behalf of Delhi. Police are on high alert on the arrival of hundreds of farmers from Palwal.
At the same time, there are about a dozen border seals in Delhi-Haryana and UP, due to which people are facing a lot of trouble in movement. On the 8th day on Friday, the drivers of Delhi-NCR are facing problems. There are alternative routes for movement in Delhi-NCR, but the jam here is also increasing the problem for the people. Meanwhile, the farmers deposited on the Singhu border say that the central government took 7 months to hear our stand.
Earlier on Thursday, on the seventh day of the Kisan agitation, most of the borders of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh adjoining Delhi remained closed. The Meerut-Delhi Expressway from Ghaziabad to Delhi was closed by farmers on Thursday morning but the ambulance carrying patients was not stopped. At the same time, a large number of farmers have already gathered at the Delhi-UP gate, so the police has blocked this path. The Singhu border is sealed since Thursday and the Auchiandi border is late Monday night. The Saboli, Bhopura and Apsara borders were also closed. At the same time, farmers are still stuck along Noida and Ghaziabad border along with Singhu and Tikri border.
At the same time, with the demand of withdrawal of agricultural laws, the movement of political parties and political parties with the intention of harvesting political crops and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Citizenship Register (NRC) among the farmers on the movement along the movement. The protesters of the jamming Shaheen Bagh are reaching. All of them are seen wearing their designs on the platform of farmers on the Singh border.
In such a situation, many farmers engaged in the movement are angry with this. They say that right now the issue of the farmer is above all and we want to talk only on that. Those who are with us will only talk better about our demands.
Signs of ending of farmer movement
At the same time, there are signs of the soon-to-end peasant movement going on for the last two months. On Thursday, for the first time in the fourth round of lengthy talks between the central government and farmer organizations, the two sides agreed on controversial issues at Vigyan Bhawan. Taking a flexible approach, the Central Government has assured to consider all the major demands of the farmers’ organizations and remove the apprehensions. However, the situation regarding legalizing minimum support price (MSP) is not clear. It is believed that the government is ready to consider amendments in the proposed laws. During the talks, the two sides will meet again on Saturday on all major issues, in which a decisive decision can be taken. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railway and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Prakash were present on Thursday’s meeting.
The first two hours of the fourth round meeting, which lasted more than seven hours at Vigyan Bhavan, were tense. Farmer leaders were stubborn on their points. The situation had become so tense that the peasant leaders refused to take even government tea. He only brought tea with him. However, the environment changed as soon as Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar indicated the government’s flexible approach to the discussion on the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC). The three ministers on behalf of the government stressed that not only will APMC be strengthened, but more and more farmers will be brought under its purview.
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