Farmers to take out ‘tractor rally’ today as R-Day rehearsal
SP Rewari Abhishek Jorwal said forces have been in Dharuhera and other protesting sites following Sunday’s clash between a group of farmers and the police.
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Farmers on tractors shout slogans at the Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Monday during their protest against the Centre’s new farm laws. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS)
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CHANDIGARH: Farmers’ unions on Wednesday said they will hold a march with 4,000-5,000 tractors on the Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways on Thursday as a “rehearsal” for January 26, even as the Haryana Police placed barricades at four locations on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to stop protesters from entering the national capital, resulting in blockages on the national highway.
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1 The Gurugram police have also set up barricades at Kapdiwas Chowk (Gurugram-Rewari border) after the clash between farmers and the police on Sunday. PTI file
Gurugram, January 6
As the farmers demonstration is intensifying day-by-day, Haryana Police have installed barricades at four locations on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to stop farmers from entering the national capital, resulting in blockages on the national highway.
These four key locations include Kapdiwas Chowk in Gurugram, Masani barrage in Dharuhera, Sangwari village in Rewari and Jaisinghpur Khera (Haryana-Rajasthan border) on the Delhi-Jaipur national highway.
With these blockages which resulted in traffic diversions on the expressway, the commuters going from Jaipur to Delhi and Delhi to Jaipur have to cover an extra 100 km to reach their destination.
Meanwhile, 150 wait on border between Rajasthan, Haryana
While most are from Rajasthan, there are also some from Punjab and Haryana at the spot. “The cold does not bother us; we are all farmers,” said Vijay Singh Chauhan from Alwar. “We have come with mattresses and warm blankets and clothes. We also have a lot of wood for fires.” December 17, 2020 3:07:37 am
K K Venugopal while hearing a clutch of petitions seeking removal of farmers staging a sit-in at the borders of Delhi against the new farm laws.
Around 150 farmers have been protesting against the three farm bills at the Haryana-Rajasthan border on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway since Sunday. Stopped from moving towards Delhi, they decided to protest at the spot and set up camp on the Jaipur-Delhi carriageway with blankets, ration and groceries to last six months, and firewood to keep the winter chill at bay.