Protesting farmers on Saturday said that they will hold marches towards governors’ houses in different states on January 23 and take out a tractor parade on January 26 against the Centre’s three farm laws.
“On January 23, we will hold marches towards Governors’ Houses in different states and a ‘Kisan Tractor Parade’ will be held on January 26 in Delhi. The tractor parade with the national flag will be called ‘Kisaan Parade’,” said Krantikari Kisan union president Darshan Pal.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be in the national capital on 26 January. He will be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade which will be held at Rajpath.
“We were peaceful, are peaceful and will be peaceful, but will stay at Delhi borders until new farm laws are repealed,” said one of the leaders of the protesting farmers’ unions.
Farmer groups continue to block traffic from Ghaziabad and Noida to Delhi on Saturday. At the Ghazipur border, the service lane of National Highway-24 continued to remain closed for traffic. The Singhu and Tikri border crossing points from Delhi to Haryana have also remained completely blocked since last month.
Meanwhile, Union minister of state (MoS) for agriculture Kailash Choudhary said a solution would come up during the talks to be held on January 4 with the farmers. The first five rounds of talks between protesting farmers and the government remain inconclusive.
On December 30, the farmers’ unions decided to meet the ministers for the sixth time. The government only agreed to address two of the four issues raised by farmers, which were sparing heavy fines for stubble burning and continuing the current mechanism of giving subsidised power for agricultural use.
