On Birthday Of Lal Bahadur Shastri Who Said 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan,' Farmers Get Tear Gas, Lathis
Farmer's protest.
On the birthday of former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri, who gave the famous slogan ¡®Jai Jawan Jai Kisan,¡¯ the protesting farmers were lathi-charged on and teargas shells were fired to disperse them at Delhi-UP border.
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#WATCH Visuals from UP-Delhi border where farmers have been stopped during 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra'. Police use water cannons to disperse protesters after protesters broke the barricades pic.twitter.com/9KUwKgvrwW
¡ª ANI (@ANI) October 2, 2018
Roughly 70,000 farmers of UP, Punjab, Haryana and other parts of north India were to reach Kisan Ghat in Delhi on October 2. But the Kisan Kranti Yatra has been stopped by Delhi and UP Police at Delhi-Up border.
Visuals from UP-Delhi border where farmers have been stopped during 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra'. Police use teargas shells to disperse protesters pic.twitter.com/ZlkodvZc3R
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Water-canons have also been unleashed and section-144 has been imposed in the border area.
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Miffed by the imposition of Section 144 during what they called a ¡°peaceful¡± protest, farmers' body president Naresh Tikait said to News18, "Why have we been stopped here (at UP-Delhi border)? The rally was proceeding in a disciplined manner. If we don't tell our government about our problems then whom do we tell? Do we go to Pakistan or Bangladesh?"
#Visuals from UP-Delhi border where farmers have been stopped during 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra'. The 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra' has been organized by farmers under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union. pic.twitter.com/3c4WqtAQnM
¡ª ANI (@ANI) October 2, 2018
Tikait alleged that the Uttar Pradesh governments and the centre hadn¡¯t kept their promises of the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission¡¯s recommendations.
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"We have organised the march to press for implementation of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations, loans waiver and scrapping the ban on plying of 10-year-old tractors in the national capital region among others," he said.
Why have we been stopped here (at UP-Delhi border)? The rally was proceeding in a disciplined manner. If we don't tell our government about our problems then whom do we tell? Do we go to Pakistan or Bangladesh?: Naresh Tikait, President, Bharatiya Kisan Union pic.twitter.com/J15xmWpZ9G
¡ª ANI (@ANI) October 2, 2018
The protest is likely to get violent. The security agencies are reportedly on high alert.
