A bunch of farmers protesting in opposition to the central farm legal guidelines on Friday staged an illustration at the Jewar toll plaza at Yamuna Expressway
A bunch of farmers protesting in opposition to the central farm legal guidelines on Friday staged an illustration at the Jewar toll plaza right here, partially disrupting site visitors motion on the Yamuna Expressway, in line with officers.
The farmers belonging to the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) had reached Jewar in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Thursday with an goal to stage the demonstration as a part of their plan to hold out related protests at another toll plazas in western Uttar Pradesh.
According to police officers, a few of the protestors, together with an area chief of the group, have been taken to the Jewar police station round midnight.
“They were brought to the station for a dialogue. We had requested them to call off the protest and vacate the toll plaza but they were reluctant to recede,” SHO, Jewar police station, Umesh Singh, instructed PTI.
The protestors went again from the police station after a while and carried on with their demonstration that continued on Friday morning additionally with them occupying two lanes of the Yamuna Expressway, in line with officers.
“The Jewar toll plaza is open for vehicular movement. Only two lanes are blocked because of the farmers’ protest,” a Traffic Police official mentioned.
After observing ‘Black Day’ on May 26, the BKU, which has been demanding the repeal of the three new central farm legal guidelines since November 2020, has intensified its protest in elements of Uttar Pradesh since Thursday.
“Members of the farmers union are staging a protest at five toll plazas in western Uttar Pradesh. These toll plazas are located in Gautam Buddh Nagar, Meerut, Amroha, Moradabad, and Muzaffarnagar,” BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik mentioned.
Supporters of the BKU, led by Rakesh Tikait, have been tenting at Ghazipur on the Delhi-UP border since November 2020 with a requirement that the Centre repeal the three contentious farm legal guidelines introduced in final yr. The farmers declare that these legal guidelines would damage their livelihood and go away them at the mercy of companies.
The authorities, which has held a number of rounds of official dialogue with the protestors, has maintained that the legal guidelines are pro-farmer.
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