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  • Uttar Pradesh Police stopping people from joining farmers stir at Delhi borders: Rakesh Tikait

    By PTI
    GHAZIABAD: The Uttar Pradesh police is stopping people of the state from joining the farmers’ protest against three central farm laws at Delhi’s borders, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait claimed on Thursday.

    The farmer leader levelled the charge during a press conference at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border where he has been leading the protest with hundreds of supporters since November 2020.

    He alleged that several people from Purvanchal area in eastern part of the state were either not getting public transport to reach Delhi or were being stopped by the local police.

    “Trains are not running. If people are found wearing caps or carrying flags (of protesting farmers unions), they are stopped from proceeding to Delhi borders,” Tikait claimed.

    “In UP, people from Purvanchal cannot reach here because regular trains are not in service. If somebody somehow gets a reservation in a train but the information reaches the police, they stop the person from travelling,” he alleged.

    “Today, the situation is such that people cannot come to Delhi to participate in the farmers’ movement,” he claimed.

    Tikait also announced at the press conference that the BKU would be intensifying its protest at district level in Uttar Pradesh from August 1 to highlight the problems being faced by the farming community.

    “We shall be taking this cause directly to the people at district level now,” Tikait said.

    Farmers at three border points of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur in Delhi are camping since November 2020 with a demand that the Centre withdraw the three new contentious farm laws and make a new one guaranteeing minimum support price (MSP) for crops.

    The government, which has held multiple rounds of official meetings with the protestors, maintains that the laws are pro-farmer.

  • No further Internet cut at Delhi borders ‘as of now’: MHA official

    quot;The MHA has not further extended the suspension of internet in Delhi #39;s borders as of now, quot; a ministry official told PTI.

  • Meghalaya governor Satya Pal Malik warns Centre not to suppress farmers’ movement

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday urged the Centre not to suppress the farmers’ movement but to listen to their concerns about the three farm laws passed during the last Monsoon Session of parliament. “I would warn that suppressing any issue in the world is not a solution. By pressing, it goes down for some time, but then it emerges with even bigger force,” the Governor told ANI.

    Recalling his journey from the agriculture fields to power corridors, Malik said he understood the cause of the farmers. “It is in the interest of the nation to find a speedy solution to this issue. I urge the government to listen to their concerns. Both sides should responsibly engage in talks,” the Meghalaya Governor said.

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    Showing towards farmers protesting at Delhi’s border area for over two months, Malik said the government show ‘greatness’ and solve the issue keeping the interest of farmers in mind. “The way farmers have been lying outside for 60 days, their family members moving back and forth between Delhi and their homes, the household work is stopped. The farmers have no sense of surety. The government has its own compulsions, but the government’s role is on top. The government has everything in its hands. It should solve this issue by showing greatness, and the interest of the farmer should be solved keeping the interest of farming in mind,” he stated.

    Meanwhile, Malik took a strong exception to the violence that happened on January 26 in Delhi during farmers’ tractor rally and said he is confident that those who violated law and order during tractor rally were not farmers.

    “On January 26, there were miscreants involved in violence. By and large farmers protest has been quiet that day. Farmers endured everything, they suffered, and they are not furious. I do not want to put them in that category. I will ask them to negotiate with intelligence with the government,” he added.

    When asked if he can act as a mediator between Centre and protesting farmers, Governor categorically denied it, saying the government would solve it by itself.