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Farmers’ protest: Delhi police gives nod to Republic Day tractor rally

Farmers’ protest: Delhi police gives nod to Republic Day tractor rally

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NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police gave permission to protesting farmer unions on Saturday to hold their tractor parades on January 26 in New Delhi.

Sources reported that the tractor parades will start from the Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri border points of Delhi.

Farmers leader Abhimanyu Kohar claimed that the Delhi Police has given its nod to the farmers' tractor parade on Republic Day in the national capital.

Talking to reporters, another farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said that as thousands of farmers will participate in the parade, there will be no single route.

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Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at several border points of Delhi since November 28 last year, demanding a repeal of the three farm laws and a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for their crops.

Enacted in September last year, the three laws have been projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove middlemen and allow farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country.

However, the protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of MSP and do away with the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates.

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Published On: Jan 24, 2021