14 December 2020 12:09 PM
The key meeting will take place today at the residence of the Union Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah, as farmers intensify their protest against the agricultural laws. Almost 40 farmers’ union leaders are today on hunger strike, at various border points in the national capital. A large group of farmers has blocked the Delhi-Jaipur highway; while a group of farmers is ready to march from Delhi’s Burari and will attempt to block NH-9 today.
14 December 2020 12:07 PM
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar arrives at the Delhi residence of Interior Minister Amit Shah.
Delhi: The Union Minister of Agriculture, Narendra Singh Tomar, arrives at the residence of the Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah. pic.twitter.com/CuSj7i09gr
– ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2020
December 14, 2020 11:56 AM
Burari farmers will march at 12:30 noon today and try to block the NH-9. This is a key highway as it connects with NH-44.
December 14, 2020 11:01 AM
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is on a 9-hour hunger strike in support of farmers protesting against farm laws.
December 14, 2020 11:01 AM
The Supreme Court will hear a petition on December 16 against farmers who block main roads in and around the national capital against agricultural laws.
December 14, 2020 10:46 am
The borders of Singhu, Auchandi, Piau Maniyari, Sabholi and Mangesh are closed. Please take alternate routes across the toll tax borders of Lampur, Safiabad and Singhu schools. Traffic has been diverted from Mukarba and GT Karnal Road. Avoid Outer Ring Road, GTK road and NH-44: Delhi Traffic Police
December 14, 2020, 10:45 am
The Ghazipur border is closed to traffic coming from Ghaziabad to Delhi due to protests from farmers. People are advised to take an alternative route to get to Delhi through the Anand Vihar, DND, Chilla, Apsara and Bhopra borders: Delhi Traffic Police
December 14, 2020, 10:45 am
Delhi: Farmer leaders sit on a hunger strike on the Tikri border as their protest against the Center’s farm laws enters on the 19th. “The Center is being stubborn with our demands. This is an attempt to wake them up,” he says. Balkaran Singh Brar, Acting President, All India Kisan Sabha, Punjab
Delhi: Farmer leaders are on hunger strike on the Tikri border as their protest against the Center’s agricultural laws enters on the 19th.
“The Center is being stubborn with our demands. This is an attempt to wake them up,” says Balkaran Singh Brar, Acting President, All India Kisan Sabha, Punjab pic.twitter.com/KY7mgGwJiT
– ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2020
Dec 14, 2020, 10:00 a.m.
The farmers union raised objectionable and anti-Modi slogans during a protest. Protesters were seen holding red flags while raising slogans against the Prime Minister.
December 14, 2020 09:36
The BKU spokesperson denies the rift between the farmers:
There are no differences between farmers. 3 leaders of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu) faction resigned because they were upset with their chairman Bhanu Pratap Singh, as to why he got engaged: BJU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on the resignation of three BKU (Bhanu Faction) leaders
December 14, 2020 09:18
BKU (Punjab) Secretary General Harinder Singh Lakhowal said farmers wanted to wake up the government. “Therefore, 40 farmer leaders from our United Farmers’ Front will go on hunger strike today at all border points between 8 am and 5 pm. 25 of them will sit on the Singhu border, 10 on the border of Tikri and 5 on the UP border, “he said. .
December 14, 2020, 07:31 am
Farmers from all over the district will also hold protests on Monday, Tikait said.
December 14, 2020, 07:31 am
The farmers will go on a hunger strike Monday from 8 am to 5 pm, the BKU leader said in a press release.
December 14, 2020, 7:30 a.m.
The national spokesman for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), Rakesh Tikait, said on Sunday that the government wants to break the unity of farmers. He said farmers are still coming to the protest site in large numbers and the ongoing agitation against the three new farm laws would be historic.
December 14, 2020, 7:30 a.m.
The group of six students, including girls, had come there to support the farmers by singing and playing ‘dafli’ (tambourine), they said.
December 14, 2020, 07:29 am
Farmers protesting the Center’s new farm laws refused to allow a group of Jamia Millia Islamia students to join their agitation at the UP Gate (Ghaziabad) -Ghazipur (Delhi) border on Sunday, police said.
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