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January 07, 2021 09:45 IST
It is meant to be a ‘rehearsal’ or ‘trailer’ for the parallel tractor parade that farmers say they will hold within the capital on Republic Day if their demands are not met.
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Tractors lined up by protesting farmers at Ghazipur for parade on Thursday, January 7, 2021. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena
It is meant to be a ‘rehearsal’ or ‘trailer’ for the parallel tractor parade that farmers say they will hold within the capital on Republic Day if their demands are not met. Thousands of protesting farmers will participate in a tractor rally on the expressways surrounding Delhi on Thursday.
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The farmers’ unions today deferred their tractor march from January 6 to January 7 due to a bad weather forecast even as they asserted they would intensify their stir in the coming days.
Thousands of farmers will take out the march from all protest sites Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur (Haryana-Rajasthan border) and the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway.
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Enough is enough. How long will we sit like this? Let us break the barricades and move toward Delhi. If some lives have to be sacrificed, then so be it, said one firebrand farmer leader during a recent meeting at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border, where thousands of farmers have been camping inside tractor trolleys since 27 November. The frustration was palpable. Several rounds of talks with the government had yielded little and patience was running ou
Farmer unions threaten to march into Delhi on January 26, hold tractor parade ANI | Updated: Jan 02, 2021 22:40 IST
New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): Protesting farmer unions on Saturday said that farmers will enter Delhi on the Republic Day with their tractors, trolleys and other vehicles if their demand for the repeal of new farm laws is not accepted.
At a joint press conference, members of the coordination committee of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha said the major demands of the protesting farmers remain unresolved.
Krantikari Kisan Union President Darshan Pal said they had drawn up a plan of action to intensify the protest.
Farmers during the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Singhu Border in New Delhi (PTI)
NEW DELHI: Delivering an ultimatum to the government ahead of next round of talks on January 4, the farmers unions opposed to the central farm laws on Saturday said the farmers, stationed at Delhi borders, would be compelled to march into the Capital and hold Kisan Gantantra Diwas Parade (Farmers Republic Day Parade) if their core demands of repeal of laws and legal guarantee to MSP are not met by January 26.
Noting that they haven t even got in writing whatever the government had agreed to on their minor demands during the previous round of talks on December 30, they said their position was absolutely clear on their core demands and the time has come for decisive action .