Farmers’ Protest Updates: The farmer protests against farm laws entered its 29th day today.
New Delhi:
The Congress on Tuesday sought President Ram Nath Kovind’s intervention for withdrawal of the three farm laws and said a memorandum signed by two crore farmers would be handed over to him today by a party delegation led by Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress has been supporting the farmers agitation and seeking the withdrawal of the Central farm legislations. A delegation of opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, had met the president with the same demand a few days ago.
AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal said the delegation of Congress leaders led by the former party chief will meet the President today.
Around 2 crore farmers’ signature have been collected from across the country, he said, while seeking the President’s intervention for annulling the three legislations.
Lakhs of farmers have been protesting in the freezing weather against the three “blatantly anti-agriculture” laws aimed at “bartering their interests in the hands of select crony capitalist friends of the (Narendra) Modi government”, the AICC general secretary said.
Here are the Live Updates on farmer protests:
We will march to Rashtrapati Bhavan. We want govt to atone for their complete lack of consulting farmers before passing these bills. I think President has an important moral role in encouraging and guiding government to not stand on their legislative pride: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.
Rahul Gandhi will lead Congress MPs’ protest march today at 10:45 am from Vijay Chowk to Rashtrapati Bhavan and will submit a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention over farmers” protest. “Rahul Gandhi along with Opposition leaders met President and submitted the memorandum to resolve farmers” issue. But there was no action from the President and the government. Rahul Gandhi will lead a demonstration tomorrow at 10:45 am from Vijay Chowk to Rashtrapati Bhavan with Congress MPs,” Congress MP K Suresh told ANI on Wednesday.
Traffic Alert
The chilla, Gazipur borders are closed for traffic coming from Noida & Gaziabad to Delhi because of farmer protests. People are advised to take alternate route for coming to Delhi via Anad Vihar, DND, Apsara,bhopra& Loni borders.– Delhi Traffic Police (@dtptraffic) December 24, 2020
Haryana police register cases against farmers for allegedly blocking CM Manohar Lal Khattar’s convoy in Ambala.
Around 20,000 members of the Kisan Sena will march from western Uttar Pradesh to Delhi Thursday to highlight their support of the centre’s farm laws, setting up a potential face-off with thousands of farmers who have been camped around the city borders for nearly a month in protest of those laws.
