{"id":330626,"date":"2021-01-29T04:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330626"},"modified":"2021-01-29T04:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:23:47","slug":"protest-against-farm-laws-continue-at-ghazipur-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/protest-against-farm-laws-continue-at-ghazipur-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest against farm laws continue at Ghazipur border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329735 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/farmer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2-675x420.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/>Farmers continued their protest on Friday at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur, a day after the Ghaziabad administration&#8217;s ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said that the farmers will not leave the site and the protest will continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Heavy security was deployed at Ghazipur border. Agitating farmers raised slogans of &#8216;Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan&#8217;, &#8216;Inquilab Zindabad&#8217; at the Ghazipur border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Traffic Police in a tweet said, \u201cGazipur border closed.Traffic diverted from NH 24, NH 9,Road no 56, 57 A,Kondli, Paper market, Telco T point,EDM Mall,Akshardham &amp; Nizammudin Khatta.Traffic is very heavy in the area &amp; Vikas marg, Pl take alternate route.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the Delhi Police issuing lookout notices against farmer leaders over the tractor rally violence is \u2018absolutely wrong\u2019. He also said treating the farmers as \u2018flight risk\u2019 was not only \u2018illogical but condemnable\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhere will they flee?\u201d asked the Chief Minister, pointing out that most of them were small farmers with small land holdings and not big corporate raiders like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Mehul Coksi, who had fled over the past few years after looting the country of billions of rupees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou failed to stop these bigwigs but are now targetting these small farmers fighting for their survival,\u201d said Captain Amarinder, urging the Centre to immediately direct the Delhi Police to withdraw the lookout notices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister also questioned the Delhi Police decision to name farmer leaders in the FIRs of the Republic Day violence without any evidence against them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers continued their protest on Friday at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur, a day after the Ghaziabad administration&#8217;s ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site. Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said that the farmers will not leave the site and the protest will continue.\u00a0 Heavy security was deployed at Ghazipur border. 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