NEW DELHI: Agitating farmer union leaders Jagjeet Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher on Wednesday mentioned that they do not need any confrontation with the Centre and are prepared for talks to resolve all the problems associated to their calls for, together with a legislation guaranteeing minimal assist value for his or her crops. “We don’t want confrontation, we want dialogue. The meeting for tomorrow has been scheduled for 5 PM,” the farmer leaders said while addressing a press conference this evening. “While we have been in dialogue, our Twitter deal with was shut down by the federal government, stating that we’re participating in anti-national exercise. This is inaccurate,” they added.
They went on so as to add, ”The central authorities is upsetting us. The Centre doesn’t need us to proceed with dialogue; as an alternative, there’s steady SHELLING on us… Today, we responded to their provocation. The angle of the Center just isn’t proper……and also you communicate for dialogue.”
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#WATCH | “The meeting with Centre will be held at 5pm tomorrow,” says Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee General Secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher at Rajpura bypass in Punjab. pic.twitter.com/54wpNxoBMu
— ANI (@ANI) February 14, 2024
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The protest this time has been referred to as by Sanyukt Kisan Morcha and Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee led by farmer union leaders Jagjeet Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher.
Tear Gas Fired At Farmers At Punjab-Haryana Shambhu Border
Police lobbed a number of rounds of teargas shells to disperse farmers who have been approaching the police barricade on the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border to renew the ‘Dilli Chalo’ protest on Wednesday. To guarantee legislation and order, Delhi police have already enforced Section 144, limiting entry of tractor trolleys and huge assemblies.
Mobile web companies, bulk SMS and all dongle companies will proceed to stay suspended in seven districts of Haryana for one more 48 hours until February 15 midnight in view of the ‘Delli Chalo’ name given by farmers’ organisations.
The cell companies have been earlier suspended on February 11 morning until February 13 at midnight. According to a notification issued by the Haryana administration, bulk SMS and all dongle companies supplied on cell networks, besides voice calls, will stay suspended within the jurisdiction of districts Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa.
Meanwhile, lengthy site visitors jams have been seen on Wednesday on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border as a result of farmers’ protest and safety checks put in place by the authorities. Rapid Action Force personnel, Police personnel and Riot Control Vehicles are deployed on the Singhu Border in Delhi in view of the farmers’ protest.
The morning visuals confirmed intense safety preparations on the Shambhu border in Ambala, Haryana, as farmers who marched in direction of Delhi on Tuesday clashed with the police. The protesting farmers on Tuesday have been seen making an attempt to interrupt the multi-layered barricades utilizing their tractors and hand weapons.Â
The Haryana police, in the meantime, detained a number of protesting farmers. The police deployed concrete slabs, iron nails, barricades, barbed wires, and police and paramilitary personnel at Kurukshetra in Haryana in view of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march by the farmers.
The farmers have put forth 12 calls for earlier than the central authorities for which they’re marching to Delhi. The protest this time has been referred to as by Sanyukt Kisan Morcha and Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee led by farmer union leaders Jagjeet Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher.
According to the protesting farmers, the centre promised them higher crop costs, after which they ended the 2021 protest. They are demanding to enact a legislation guaranteeing a minimal assist value (MSP) for all crops, as really helpful by the Swaminathan Commission report.
They are additionally demanding a whole debt waiver and a scheme to supply pensions to farmers and farm labourers. The farmers have additionally urged to scrap the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 and are demanding to reintroduce the Land Acquisition Act of 2013, guaranteeing consent from farmers and compensation at 4 instances the collector fee.
Further, they’re demanding to punish these concerned within the Lakhimpur Kheri killings.An attraction to supply 200 days of employment per yr and a every day wage of Rs 700 beneath the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA), linking it with farming, has additionally been made by the farmers. Also, they’ve demanded compensation to the households of farmers who died through the protests in 2021 and a job for any member of the family has been put in place.Â