A large number of farmers, including women, showed up at a farmers’ meeting at the Landhdi toll plaza on the Hisar-Sirsa National Highway on Tuesday. (Express photo)
Referring to the multiple layers of barricades placed at the borders by Delhi police and the reduction of internet services, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) said on Tuesday that there can be no “formal” talks with the government until such “harassment “by the police and the administration they are” immediately arrested “.
At the Ghazipur border, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said that police barricades could not stop farmers and that they were ready to continue their protests until October-November.
In a statement, the SKM said: “Increased barricades, including digging trenches, driving nails into roads, barbed wire fences, closing internal roads, disruption of internet services, Organizing protests and facilitating them through BJP-RSS workers, diverting trains and stopping them before the destination stations are part of the multiple attacks that the government, its police and the administration are organizing against the protesting farmers “.
At the Singhu border, peasant leaders demanded the release of the 122 people arrested by Delhi police in recent days, most of them in connection with the Republic Day violence. “The Delhi Police have published the list of 122 agitators who were taken into police custody. We demand their immediate release. We also condemn the attacks and arrests of journalists who are covering the movement, ”said SKM’s Darshan Pal, adding that they were concerned that many people at the protest sites had“ disappeared ”.
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