New Delhi: The Ghaziabad District Administration has ordered anti-farm laws protestors at Ghazipur (Delhi-Ghaziabad border) to vacate the area by late Thursday evening, official sources said.
The administration said if protestors do not act as per order then they will be forcefully evacuated by night, they added. The police have been deployed at the protest site.
At Ghazipur border, the administration has imposed Section 144 and 133. Barricades have been brought in and a huge police presence is sighted at the site.
यहां गोली चलेगी- राकेश टिकैत#KisanAndolan #RakeshTikait pic.twitter.com/8tEI4TJuMX
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Rakesh Tikait slaps a person at Ghazipur border
“He is not a member of our organisation. He was taking a stick and would have done something. He was misbehaving with media. All those who are here with ill intent should leave,” says BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait
#WATCH: Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait slaps a person at Ghazipur border (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh). pic.twitter.com/fhRSbdlhgY
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Delhi: Members of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) & BKU (Ekta) met Union Agriculture Min Narendra Singh Tomar today.
“We’re also hurt by Red fort incident. Govt has assured us that they’ll continue with commitments made during talks with farmers,”says SS Bhati,BKU (Lok Shakti) pic.twitter.com/1C1Qfg8dQ1
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Rakesh Tikait gets teary-eyed but refuses to leave
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, against whom an FIR has been filed over the Republic Day tractor rally violence, has been served a legal notice to surrender before the Ghaziabad administration.
However, the kisan neta has refused to evict, saying ‘he will commit suicide but won’t end the protest until farm bills are repealed.
रोने लगे Rakesh Tikait, दी आत्महत्या करने की धमकी, देखें VIDEO
आज शाम गाजीपुर बॉर्डर से किसान नेता राकेश टिकैत ने कहा- कृषि कानून वापस नहीं लिए गए तो, मैं आत्महत्या कर लूंगा. देश के किसान के साथ अत्याचार हो रहा है#GazipurBorder #RakeshTikait #KisanAndolan pic.twitter.com/354i5ippcL
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Earlier in the day, Uttar Pradesh Police personnel conducted a flag march at the Ghazipur border. Ghazipur is one of the sites where protests against the central farm laws are going on for nearly two months.
This comes after violence broke out in the national capital on January 26 during the farmers’ tractor rally.
Prashant Kumar, Additional Director General (Law and Order), Uttar Pradesh said the police personnel have been deployed at UP gate to look that ‘anti-national elements’ do not infiltrate the protests.
In the violence that broke out on January 26, several public and private properties were damaged in acts of vandalism by the protestors.
A total of 394 police personnel sustained injuries in the violence and several of them are still admitted to hospitals.
