NEW DELHI: An accumulated confrontation until Thursday between the police and protesters to UP door on the Ghazipur border in Delhi after the UP government ordered the farmers camping there to be vacated and the Tikait faction of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, the group leading the agitation at the sit-in at the site, got down to it. the work and announced that he would move the Supreme Court on Friday against the attempted eviction of the protesters.
BKU Leader Rakesh Tikait, who stood strong at UP Gate as tension mounted after the Ghaziabad administration notified protesters to leave and a large police contingent moved, said: “The Supreme Court has raised no objection to peaceful protest. There has been no violence here (at UP Gate). I will challenge the order in the Supreme Court on Friday. ”
The local administration cut off power to the roadside camps that have hosted thousands of protesters since the upheaval began in the last week of November at UP Gate, which formed the troika, along with Singhu and Tikri, who became in the main protest centers against the new agricultural laws. The water tank service was also suspended. Most of the mobile toilets were also removed.
But even as the BKU resisted, other protests failed – most notably the upheaval in Atoha in Palwal on the Delhi-Agra highway – as the tide continued to turn after the Republic Day violence in Delhi during the tractor rally. “The Red Fort incident changed everything overnight,” admitted Shiv Kumar Kakka, who was leading the Atoha protest as he decided to end the unrest, a day after more than 2,000 protesters were registered for a clash in Faridabad during a Republic Day tractor rally. Kakka said the protest had also lost support from locals.
The night before, in UP’s Baghpat, the police evicted the protesters who were camping on the Delhi-Saharanpur highway. A FIR TREE It was also filed against farmers under sections 283 (obstruction on public roads), 341 (undue restriction), 188 (disobedience of the order issued by the public servant), 269 (spread of infection) and sections of the Law of Epidemic Diseases.
On the border of Singhu, Delhi Police they installed new barricades near the passage to the protest site, leaving visitors with no choice but to take long detours as they pass through residential areas. Police also began stopping private vehicles a few kilometers before the protest site, allowing only government vehicles to advance. There are also more boots on the ground.
The crowd at the protest site had also noticeably thinned out. The farmers said they will stay and only those who had come to participate in the tractor parade returned. Meanwhile, the Burari grounds were cleared of protesters. About 30 of them moved to Singhu and 15 were arrested for their possible involvement in the January 26 violence. “At 8 pm, the Burari grounds were unoccupied,” said a high-ranking police officer.
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