The Delhi police on Wednesday allowed the farmers to hold protest after they took an undertaking from the protestors that they would not march towards the parliament.
Ahead of this planned farmers protest, the Delhi police have barricaded the entire area around Jantar Mantar. The farmers have been protesting for months asking to repeal the farm laws that were passed by the parliament in September, last year.
Reportedly, a large section of policemen along with Rapid Action Force have been deployed at the place of the protest. The police have enveloped various parts of the national capital namely Singhu and Tikri among others. Heavy barricading have also been put in place.
ANI quoted Parvinder Singh, DCP (outer district) who informed, “We have placed preventive arrangements to avoid entry of any miscreant at the Tikri border. The arrangement has been put in place as the farmers haven’t received permission to hold protest here.”
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has allowed only 200 protestor to hold there demonstration from 11 am to 5 pm on the grounds of following the COVID 19 protocols. The farmers are allowed to protest from July 22 to August 09.
According to reports, on Thursday, 200 demonstrators will round up at Jantar Mantar. They will reach the venue in buses from the Sindhu border. Rakesh Tikait, farmers leader and Bharatiya kisan Union’s spokesperson informed that he will go to Jantar Mantar along with the farmers to supervise the parliamentary proceeding during the monsoon session which is schedule to end in the early August.
Earlier the farmers protested demanding the withdrawal of farm laws on multiple major highways that led to the national capital for nearly eight months. On January 26, they took out a tractor rally in Delhi that resulted in a clash with the police after they drove their vehicles into the security barriers. As per reports nearly 80 policemen were injured across the city.
According to the farmers, the new farm law favors large private retailers. Prior to these new farm laws, private retailers were not allowed to procure farm goods outside government regulated wholesale grain markets.
Meanwhile, the government asserts that the laws introduced in September 2020 will unshackle farmers from having to sell their produce only at regulated wholesale markets.
