Farmers beneath the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have been tenting at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points since then.
Delhi Police has tightened security at borders forward of the Punjab farmers’ Friday march to the nationwide capital. “Delhi Police is on alert and security has been tightened at the border points of the city. A skeletal deployment has been made at the Singhu Border but it may increase as per the situation at the Shambu border on the Punjab-Haryana border,” a senior police officer informed PTI.
Traffic is more likely to be hit because of the security preparations at the border and the central a part of Delhi, he mentioned.
The officer mentioned the police are additionally protecting a watch on developments on the Noida border, the place one other group of farmers from Uttar Pradesh observes a sit-in.
Farmers, primarily in search of a authorized assure to minimal assist value for crops, had earlier tried to march into the nationwide capital on February 13 and February 21, however they have been stopped by security forces at Shambhu and Khanauri on Punjab-Haryana borders.
Farmers beneath the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have been tenting at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points since then.
On Wednesday, the district administration of Ambala in Haryana requested Punjab farmers to rethink their proposed march to Delhi and informed them to ponder additional motion solely after getting permission from Delhi Police.
Delhi Police, nevertheless, mentioned it has not acquired any request from Punjab farmers to march to Delhi.
The Ambala administration has imposed Section 163 of the BNSS proscribing the meeting of 5 or extra individuals within the district and has issued notices at the protest web site close to the Shambhu border.
On Monday, farmer chief Sarwan Singh Pandher mentioned a delegation of farmers met Ambala’s superintendent of police and knowledgeable him about their foot march to Delhi on December 6.
Pandher mentioned the delegation had assured the police that the march could be peaceable and site visitors alongside the route wouldn’t be blocked.
Besides the MSP, the farmers are demanding a debt waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, and no hike in electrical energy tariff.
They are additionally demanding “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA workers and is revealed from PTI)
