Ongoing protests by thousands of farmers against the Center’s new farm laws entered the fifth day on Monday, and protesters threatened to block all five points of entry into the national capital. By rejecting the Center’s offer to hold talks once they move to the Burari farm, the farmers said they will not accept any conditional dialogue and have called a meeting to discuss their next course of action later in the day.
The farmers, who had arrived at Nirankarai Samagam Ground in Burari on Saturday, continued their protest there.
Traffic continued to be disrupted in the city due to protests. On Twitter, the Delhi Traffic Police on Monday alerted travelers to take an alternate route as the Singhu and Tikri borders remained closed. “The Singhu border is still closed on both sides. Please take the alternative route. Traffic has been diverted from the Mukarba Chowk and GTK highway. The traffic is very heavy. Avoid the outer ring road from the signature bridge to Rohini and vice versa, the GTK road, the NH 44 and Singhu borders, ”he tweeted.
In another tweet, he said: “The Tikri border is closed for any traffic movement. The open borders available to Haryana follow the borders of Jharoda, Dhansa, Daurala Jhatikera, Badusari, Kapashera, Rajokri NH 8, Bijwasan / Bajghera, Palam Vihar and Dundahera ”. Union Interior Minister Amit Shah had appealed to the farmers to move to the Burari field and said that the Center was ready to hold talks with them as soon as they moved to the designated location.
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A meeting of more than 30 farmer groups was held to discuss Shah’s offer to talk ahead of the scheduled December 3 date once they move to Burari in the city, but the thousands of protesters refused to budge. and they spent another night in the cold at Singhu. and Tikri border points.
His representatives said that Shah’s condition to change the protest is not acceptable and stated that the Burari land is an “open jail”.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, in a letter to 32 farmers’ organizations sent on Saturday, cited the cold conditions and the Covid-19 outbreak and said that farmers should move to the Burari field, where they have been made the right facilities for them.
“As soon as you move to the field in Burari, the next day, a high-level committee of union ministers will hold talks in Vigyan Bhavan with the representatives of all farmers’ unions, with whom they had previously spoken,” he had said. in the letter.
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