Farmer leaders claim – Delhi Police gives permission for tractor rally on Republic Day

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New Delhi: Farmer leaders claimed on Saturday that the Delhi Police has given them permission to hold a tractor rally on Republic Day. According to the news agency PTI, farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar claimed that the protesting farmers had met the police and they have got permission for a tractor rally. According to sources, the route of the rally can be decided on Sunday. Farmers from different parts of Punjab and Haryana laden in their tractors and trolleys have reached the Delhi border and are preparing to participate in the proposed tractor rally on 26 January. Farmers have also brought ration, carpets, and other important items with them. This convoy of tractors has come out of pressure on the central government to withdraw the agricultural law.

Farmers have their union flags on their tractors, while some have hoisted the tricolor on their tractors. With the slogans of ‘Kisan Ekta Zindabad’, ‘No Former, No Food’ and ‘Cancel Black Law’, the farmers are constantly insisting on taking out a tractor rally. The protesting farmers’ organizations are protesting against the three agricultural laws of the central government and they say that they will take out their proposed tractor rally on Republic Day. Farmers say that they will take out a tractor parade on Delhi Outer Ring Road.

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Sukhdev Singh Kokarikalan, general secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan), said on Saturday that the tractor parade will go out in a peaceful environment. More than 30 thousand tractors and trolleys have gone from Khannauri in Sangrur in Punjab and Dabwali in Sirsa district of Haryana to Delhi. He said that it is expected that this convoy will reach the border on Saturday night. Apart from this, a convoy of 1000 tractors from Phagwara in Punjab and 150 tractors from Hoshiarpur have left for Delhi to be part of the parade.

For the last two months, thousands of farmers of Punjab and Haryana have been camping on the Delhi border against the agricultural laws of the central government. The farmers demand that the central government withdraw the new agricultural laws and guarantee the minimum support price to the farmers against their produce.

He claims that the new agricultural law will weaken the minimum support price system, but the central government says that the MSP system will remain and the new laws will provide more options for farmers to sell their crops.

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