Heavy security deployment continued at the Tikri border (Delhi-Haryana border) on Sunday morning as farmers’ protest against three agriculture laws enters the 74th day.
Police officers were seen standing in huge numbers near the barricades placed near the Tikri border a day after the “chakka jam” call given by the farmer unions who were protesting against the farm laws for over two months at the national capital’s border.
“The government should consider the fact that protesting farmers are dying and these laws should be repealed so that we can go back home. We have been protesting for nearly three months and till these laws are not withdrawn we’ll keep protesting here peacefully,” said Chanranjeet Singh, a farmer from Punjab.
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Delhi: Heavy security deployment continues at the Tikri border (Delhi-Haryana border) as farmers’ protest against three agriculture laws enters the 74th day.
(Latest visuals from near the protest site) pic.twitter.com/wAyWzqYHnY
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Farmers’ agitation against the three agriculture laws at Ghazipur border (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border) enters Day 72. pic.twitter.com/djaJkqGKmS
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Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three newly enacted farm laws – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.