Farmers will set up parallel parliament at Jantar Mantar against agricultural laws from today, Delhi Police on high alert

Farmers protesting the three agricultural laws of the Center are starting the Parliament march from today (Thursday, 22 July). Amidst heavy security, farmers will hold their Parliament at Jantar Mantar and protest against the government. Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has given special permission for demonstrations by a maximum of 200 farmers per day till August 9. Sources in Delhi Police said that a group of 200 farmers in four buses every day with police protection will come to Jantar Mantar from Singhu border in buses and will protest there from 11 am to 5 pm.

Sources in Delhi Police said that every farmer reaching Jantar Mantar will have an identity card, which will be allowed to go there only after checking. The United Kisan Morcha is giving this identity card to the farmers.

Police have made heavy security arrangements at Jantar Mantar. 5-5 companies of Delhi Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed there. Entire Delhi Police is on high alert. Farmers’ protest at Jantar Mantar will be held in coordination with United Kisan Morcha and Delhi Police.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a body of farmer unions protesting against the agricultural laws, said that if the monsoon session of Parliament ends on August 13, then their protest at Jantar Mantar will also continue till August 13. However, the Lieutenant Governor has given permission for the dharna till August 9. This is the first time after the violence that broke out in the national capital during a tractor rally on January 26 this year that the authorities have allowed protesting farmers’ unions in the city.

According to an order issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, who is also the chairman of DDMA, organized a protest at Jantar Mantar by maximum 200 farmers every day from July 22 to August 9 from 11 am to 5 pm. Approved. “They will be brought by designated buses on designated routes under police escort and will be subjected to COVID-appropriate behavior (wearing of masks, maintaining social distancing, washing hands regularly and using sanitisers etc.) and India,” the order said. All other guidelines/instructions/SOPs issued by the Government and Government of NCT of Delhi from time to time regarding the COVID-19 pandemic shall be strictly complied with.

Adequate security arrangements will be made at Jantar Mantar, sources said. As per a DDMA order, gatherings for protests in the national capital are not currently allowed.

Thousands of farmers across the country are staging a sit-in on Delhi’s borders against the three agriculture laws, claiming it will destroy the MSP system and leave them at the mercy of big corporate houses.

The government is projecting these laws as major agricultural reforms. The farmer unions have held more than 10 rounds of talks with the government but it has failed to break the deadlock between the two sides. The SKM had initially proposed that the protesting farmers would hold a “Kisan Sansad” every day at Jantar Mantar, a few meters from Parliament.

After a meeting with Delhi Police officials on Tuesday, a farmers union leader said they would hold a peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar demanding abolition of agricultural laws and no protesters would go to Parliament. The Kisan Union leader had said, “We will organize a ‘Kisan Sansad’ from July 22 till the end of the monsoon session and 200 protesters will go to Jantar Mantar every day. A speaker and a deputy speaker will be elected every day.

The farmer leader said, “The APMC Act will be discussed in the first two days. Later, other bills will also be discussed every two days. National President of the National Farmers Labor Federation Shiv Kumar Kakka told that every day by putting up a farmer’s identity card, Singh will go from the border to protest at Jantar Mantar.

The tractor parade, held on January 26 to highlight the demands of farmers’ unions to repeal three new agricultural laws, turned chaotic on the streets of the capital as thousands of protesters broke barricades, clashed with police and A religious flag was hoisted on the ramparts of the Red Fort.