New Delhi: Police fired quite a few tear fuel shells to scatter farmers trying to breach the police barricade on the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border as they resumed the ‘Dilli Chalo’ protest on Wednesday. Drones had been additionally used to drop tear fuel shells on the hundreds gathered, whereas a number of farmers had been detained on the border.
Security preparations have been beefed up on inter-state borders between Punjab and Haryana because the farmers proceed to agitate and march in direction of the nationwide capital with numerous calls for on Centre’s agriculture policices icluding a legislation guaranteeing a minimal help worth (MSP) for all crops.
In order to keep up legislation and order, the Delhi police have already applied Section 144, which prohibits the entry of tractor trolleys and enormous gatherings. Meanwhile, Commuters encountered difficulties as visitors congestion because of the heavy safety deployment and barricades alongside protesting farmers slowed motion ensuing heavy visitors jams.
The farmers intend to march to Delhi from the Ambala-Shambhu, Khanauri-Jind, and Dabwali borders. Mobile web companies have been suspended in seven districts of Haryana and Section 144 was imposed in Panchkula and Chandigarh.
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 known 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 help worth (MSP) for all crops, as beneficial by the Swaminathan Commission report. They are additionally demanding an entire debt waiver and a scheme to offer 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, making certain 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 offer 200 days of employment per 12 months and a day by day wage of Rs 700 below 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 in the course of the protests in 2021 and a job for any member of the family has been put in place.
