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Farmers’ protest updates: New farm laws will snatch away farmers’ land: Delhi CM Kejriwal

Several farmer groups on Saturday wrote a letter to the Union agriculture ministry and thereby accepted the central government’s invitation for dialogue in order to end the ongoing agitation against the government’s three agriculture reforms. The farmer groups proposed December 29 as the date for the sixth round of talks. Earlier, five meetings were held between Union ministers and farmer groups which remained inconclusive. The farmer groups also placed four point agenda on Saturday and asked the government to adopt the modalities for the removal of the reforms and incorporate changes in the draft Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 so that the interests of the farmers are protected. They further warned that a tractor march will be held from the Singhu border on December 30 if the government does not talk of removing the reforms during the December 29 meeting.Also Read: Agitating farmers from western UP stay put in Noida at nightIt has been over one month, since farmers have been camping at border points in Delhi and protesting against the agriculture reforms passed by the Parliament in September. Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava visited the Singhu border on Saturday to take stock of the law and order situation at one of the largest protest sites in the national capital. “The law and order situation at the Singhu border is normal. There is no anticipation at this stage that something (untoward) will happen, but we are careful and adequate force is deployed at the border,” he said. Meanwhile, in a major relief to Delhi-Ghaziabad commuters, the Delhi Traffic Police announced that National Highway (NH)- NH-9 and NH-24,passing through the Ghazipur border were reopened for traffic movement. Follow live updates here:‘Urging Centre with folded hands these are our people,’ says Kejriwal as he visits SinghuDelhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday visited Singhu border where thousands of farmers have been protesting for the last four weeks against the three agriculture laws passed by the Centre in September. The Punjab Academy of the Delhi government organised a kirtan durbar on Sunday at Singhu border. Kejriwal and Sisodia paid a visit to the musical event and were seated among the audience during the kirtan.Farmers camping at Delhi borders not for holiday, but to seek answers from govt: Hannan MollahFarmers camping at various Delhi borders are here not for a “holiday” but to seek answers from the Centre to their grievances, farmer leader Hannan Mollah said on Sunday as he criticised the government for a lack of response to their proposal for talks on December 29. Farmer groups protesting against the Centre’s three farm laws have proposed a meeting with the government at 11 am on December 29, but they are yet to receive any response from the government, he claimed. Previously, five rounds of talks between the farmer unions and the government have failed to break the deadlock.Protesters stay put at Delhi borders amid harsh weather conditionsWith the protests against the farm reforms completing over a month, thousands of famers stayed put at their protest sites near the national capital amid dropping temperatures. Security remained tight at the border points in Delhi and neighbouring areas with hundreds of personnel deployed at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri.Protesters use Nirankari Samagam ground in Burari to grow cropsProtesting farmers camping at the Nirankari Samagam ground in Burari were seen growing crops at the premises. “Since we have been sitting idle for a month during protests, we thought of growing onions as we can use it for our daily cooking. We will grow more crops on Burari ground,” a farmer told news agency ANI.  Delhi: Protesting farmers say they're using Nirankari Samagam ground in Burari to grow crops."Since we've been sitting idle for a month during protests, we thought of growing onions as we can use it for our daily cooking. We'll grow more crops on Burari ground," says a farmer. pic.twitter.com/hvNOHwVF31Rahul Gandhi tweets poem to slam Centre over farmers’ protestsCongress leader on Sunday hit out at the Centre over the ongoing agitation against the farm reforms by saying that farmers should keep walking and not be scared of the government. Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader tweeted a poem which was a modified version of Dwarkaprasad Maheshwari’s “Veer Tum Badhe Chalo.”  वीर तुम बढ़े चलोधीर तुम बढ़े चलोवॉटर गन की बौछार होया गीदड़ भभकी हज़ार होतुम निडर डरो नहीं तुम निडर डटो वहींवीर तुम बढ़े चलोअन्नदाता तुम बढ़े चलो! pic.twitter.com/MqsuS9QxEjBKU farmer leader receives threatening call, FIR registeredA senior police officer said that an FIR was registered on Saturday after a complaint was filed alleged that Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been participating in the ongoing stir received a death threat on his phone. The phone number mentioned in the complaint in under surveillance and efforts were in to identify the caller, the officer told news agency PTI.

Hindustan Times

28-12-2020

India