Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers’ road blockade today to exclude Delhi, Uttarakhand, U.P.

The chakka jam (road blockade) planned by farm unions on Saturday will exclude Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to ensure that the kind of violence that marred the Republic Day tractor parades is not repeated. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha leadership has issued strict guidelines to ensure a “completely peaceful and non-violent” agitation in the rest of the country, with a specific appeal not to engage in any conflict with the government authorities or other citizens. “There will be no chakka jam programme inside Delhi since all the protest sites are already in a chakka jam mode. All roads for entering Delhi will remain open except where farmers’ protest sites are already located,” the SKM statement on Friday said. Leaders of the Bharatiya Kisan Union-Tikait, which is leading the protest in U.P., and the Terai Kisan Sangathan, which includes a large number of protesting farmers from Uttarakhand, said the chakka jam had been called off in those two States. BKU leader Rakesh Tikait told reporters he had inputs that violence could be fomented in U.P. and the border areas of Uttarakhand.

The Hindu

2021-02-06

NEW DELHI/ GHAZIABAD