Police stop farmers from constructing martyrs’ memorial at Singhu border
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Police stop farmers from constructing martyrs’ memorial at Singhu border
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Sonepat, April 4The police on Sunday evening stopped farmers from constructing a ‘martyrs’ memorial’ near KFC Mall at Kundli near the Singhu border.Govt has lost people’s trust: MPNotably, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) had announced the construction of memorials at all protest sites — Singhu, Tikri, Shahjanpur and Ghazipur — in the memory of those farmers who died during the protest. The SKM also held a ‘Mitti Satyagrah Yatra’ to collect soil from the villages of the deceased farmers’ villages for the memorials.As per the SKM records, as many as 351 farmers have lost their lives during the ongoing farmers’ stir so far.Following the SKM announcement, protesters had started the construction of a ‘pucca’ structure for the memorial near KFC Mall on the National Highway-44 today.After the police received information, Kundli SHO Ravi Kumar-led police team reached the spot and stopped the construction in the evening.
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The Tribune
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2021-04-05