
However, Tikait remained adamant and said that he would be there at the protest site and will commit suicide, but won’t get arrested.

Police officials also met Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait and appealed to him to end the protest. Otherwise, they would be forced to vacate the place, he said. In the afternoon, the DM of Ghaziabad appealed to the farmers to vacate the place. “We are wary of police action here too.”Īt the Ghazipur protest site on the UP border, the Ghaziabad police stepped up action on Thursday evening and Sec-144 was imposed at the protest site. “We have heard that farmers are being forced by the government at different sites to vacate the place,” Satyadev Singh, an elderly person from Patiala told ET.
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Some people were also glued to the TV screens and enquiring about the situation at other protest sites. We are not going anywhere.” There was a thin crowd at the tent of Dahiya Khap from Sisana. “Only those tractors have gone back who came for the Republic Day Parade. We have been advised by the leaders not to speak to anyone,” an elderly person from Sisana, Sonipat, told ET. “There are people from the government roaming around to get some information. The people staying there are suspicious of anyone asking questions and are not revealing their names. However, the passage inside had lesser crowd. Inside the protest site, the tractors were parked as before and langars were seen operating. With farmer leaders taking the stage on Wednesday, some normalcy has come back.” “On the night of January 26, there was complete silence at this place which was buzzing with activity before. “No doubt, our movement has suffered from what happened on January 26,” Raminder Singh, state committee member of Kirti Kisan Union, who was on the stage, told ET. No senior farmer leader was present at the protest site during the day. There was a sense of panic with heavy police deployment and young boys forming a chain around the stage to guard people. However, the local villagers moved around 1 km away from the protest site.Īt the main protest site of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, speaker after speaker kept appealing to people to stay at the site. At one point there was sloganeering from both sides –– the villagers and the farmers. “On Friday, there would be a meeting of people from 40 villages and we will take a call.”Īt the first protest site of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, the organisation which had asked its supporters to take the Ring Road for the parade, protests continued as usual. For the last two months they have blocked it and we are suffering a lot,” Arup Singh Maan from Alipur village told ET.

“We went to meet the farmers to allow us to open at least one side of the road.

A group of local villagers also took to the streets and protested against the farmers’ agitation and appealed to the government to open at least one side of the road. Police have blocked all roads leading to the protest site from Delhi and no one is being allowed to move in. The protests on Thursday continued as usual but with much lesser strength than before. New Delhi: A sense of silence and grief has enveloped Singhu Border, the main protest site, after the Republic day incident.
