Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said the arrogance of power has made the government sitting in New Delhi blind and deaf to the suffering of millions of farmers in the country and it is treating them as enemies . The government doesn t realise that these humble farmers also have the power to oust arrogant rulers, he said. Yadav was addressing a Kisan Mahapanchayat organised by his party at Tappal here in support of the ongoing farmers agitation against the Centre s three new agricultural laws. The arrogance of power has made the government sitting in New Delhi blind and deaf to the suffering of millions of farmers in the country, the SP leader told the gathering.
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Climate activist Disha Ravi reached the office of the Delhi Police Cyber Cell on Tuesday in connection with the probe into the toolkit Google doc backing the ongoing farmers agitation, officials said. A Delhi court on Monday sent Ravi to one-day police custody as it said she has to be confronted with other accused in the case Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk. Jacob and Muluk joined the probe on Monday. They were questioned at the Delhi Police Cyber Cell office in Dwarka. The Delhi Police, probing the toolkit Google doc shared by climate activist Greta Thunberg, had arrested Bengaluru-based activist Disha Ravi, while Jacob and Muluk were granted pre-arrest bail by court.
Lawyer Nikita Jacob and engineer Shantanu Muluk on Monday joined the probe in connection with the toolkit case and are being questioned at the Delhi Police s Cyber cell office in Dwarka, a senior police officer said. The Delhi Police, probing the toolkit Google doc backing the farmers agitation shared by climate activist Greta Thunberg, had arrested Bengaluru-based activist Disha Ravi while Jacob and Muluk were granted pre-arrest bail by a court. Both Jacob and Muluk were served notice to join the probe and are currently being quizzed in connection with their alleged role in the toolkit case, the officer said.