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Canadian flag seen at farmers tractor rally
In what could raise more questions over the ongoing farmers protest, a Canadian national flag pasted on a tractor was spotted during the tractor rally organised by the farmers against the three agri laws on Thursday. Farmers are holding tractor march to press for their demands. Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, are demanding repeal of the farm laws, a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues. Today is the 43rd day of their stir.
Farmers took out tractor-march from protest sites of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders and Haryana s Rewasan against the three agriculture laws amid heavy police deployment. According to the protesting farm unions, this is just a rehearsal for their proposed January 26 tractor parade that will be moved into the national capital from different parts of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
Protesting farm unions said today s march is just a rehearsal for their proposed 26 January tractor parade that will be moved into Delhi from different parts of Haryana, Punjab and UP
Farm law protests: 75-year-old farmer dies by suicide at Ghazipur border, third such incident
Kashmir Singh, in a purported suicide note, wrote that the new laws made by the government were not in the interests of farmers. Jan 03, 2021 · 08:17 am Representative image: Farmers listen to a speaker during a protest against the newly passed farm bills at Singhu border near New Delhi, India, December 9, 2020. | Adnan Abidi/ Reuters
A 75-year-old farmer from Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh, who was protesting against the Centre’s agricultural laws, died by suicide at the Ghazipur border on Saturday, PTI reported, citing the police.
A suicide note written in Gurmukhi script was recovered from Kashmir Singh, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police of Indirapuram Anshu Jain. In the purported suicide note, Singh expressed his anguish that though some people from Punjab died during the farmers’ protest, no one from Uttar Pradesh or Uttarakhand had s
Farmer protest
Despite multiple rounds of talks, the deadlock between farmers and the Centre has not met with a peaceful resolution. Continuing the stir at Singhu and Chilla border even amid the biting-cold weather across North India, the farmers have now decided up the ante if the meeting of 4
th with the government fails to end the deadlock.
As the farmer protest enters day 37, the farmers unions have warned that if a consensus is not reached by January 4, they will announce dates to shut all shopping malls and petrol pumps in Haryana. All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, in its latest statement, has asserted that the farmers have one demand and that is the repeal of the contention farm laws. The acceptance of two minor issues is a cover of rigidness on repeal.