Farmers Movement Archive

Terai farmers tear memorandum of demands after DM refuses to receive it, handover pieces to ADM

Rudrapur: The Terai farmers protesting against the three farm laws on Monday tore their memorandum of demands into pieces in anger after Ranjan Rajguru, the district magistrate (DM) of Udham Singh Nagar, refused to receive it. Later, the farmers handed over the pieces of the memorandum, addressed to the Prime Minister, to Jagdish Kandpal, additional district magistrate, who came to meet them. The entire episode lasted for five hours, following which, the agitating farmers retreated from the collectorate raising anti-government and anti-administration slogans. Meanwhile, the police kept strict vigil to avoid any untoward incident. Before marching towards the DM office, the farmers, under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), also staged a two-hour-long sit-in protest at Gandhi Park. “The government wants to suppress the farmers’ movement. The Centre, on the behest of a few corporate houses, is adopting different tactics to snatch farmers of their land and harvest,” said Karam Singh Padda, BKU Uttarakhand president. Former Congress minister Tilak Raj Behar also reached Gandhi Park on Monday to extend support to the farmers’ protest. “The BJP-led central government wants to frame agitators in legal cases, send them to jail, or just beat them for no reason to suppress this movement. But we will not back off. The Congress party stands firm with the farmers,” he said.

The Times of India

2020-12-15

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