January 26 tractor parade: Thursday’s event a rehearsal for January 26 tractor parade: Farmer leader

CHANDIGARH: With 1000’s of tractors bedecked with tricolours and farmer outfits’ flag of myriad colors swamping the KMP Expressway on the outskirts of Delhi on Thursday, a outstanding key leader dubbed the rally as a “rehearsal for the January 26 tractor parade” “It was a rehearsal for the proposed January 26 tractor parade,” Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) leader Shingara Singh Mann advised over the cellphone.

He mentioned farmers began their march from the Singhu and Tikri borders and drove in direction of the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway within the morning after which they got here again later.

“The rally was peaceable and was a full success,” he added.

As farmers, particularly youths owing allegiance to numerous farm our bodies took half in a march, their tractors sported tricolour, flags of varied farmers’ unions and banners mentioning ‘No Farmer No Food’.

Farmers additionally shouted slogans in opposition to the Centre for not acceding to their calls for.

“We additionally need to give a message to the Centre by means of this rally that we’ll not return until it accepts our calls for,” mentioned a protesting farmer, including it additionally exhibits farmers’ resolve for their struggle in opposition to the farm legislations.

Balraj Kundu, unbiased MLA from Meham in Haryana’s Rohtak district additionally participated in a tractor march on the KMP expressway.

“If the federal government continues to stay adamant, farmers will take out a tractor parade in Delhi on January 26,” mentioned Kundu whereas speaking to reporters in Rohtak.

Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh (*26*) common secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher slammed the BJP-led authorities for not accepting their calls for.

He additionally accused the federal government of adopting “double requirements” on this situation.

“On one hand, the federal government is holding talks with farmer leaders and on the opposite, its ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal are saying these farm legal guidelines are in he curiosity of farmers,” mentioned Pandher.

Thousands of farmers, largely from Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh have been tenting at three Delhi border factors — Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur for greater than a month, demanding a repeal of the three farm legal guidelines and a authorized assure for the minimal help worth for their crops.

Meanwhile, the satisfactory safety personnel had been deployed by the Haryana police at KMP toll plaza within the wake of a tractor march.