Image Source : PTI (FILE). Farmers stage a protest in Noida.
Farmers protest: Mobile web companies, bulk SMS and all dongle companies, and many others supplied on cellular networks, besides the voice calls within the jurisdiction of districts Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa of Haryana State has been suspended.
The order might be in impact from 6:00 am on February 11 (Sunday) to 11:59 pm on February 13 (Tuesday).
SHO Joginder Singh stated, “Barricading is being done here so that they can’t advance any further. Three-layer barricading is being done.”
Elaborate safety preparations at Punjab-Haryana borders
Safety preparations are being made to seal the Punjab-Haryana borders in Ambala, Jind and Fatehabad districts forward of farmers’ proposed ‘Delhi Chalo’ march on February 13 to press the Centre to just accept their numerous calls for.
The Haryana Police on Saturday issued a site visitors advisory and urged commuters to restrict journey on the primary roads of the state to pressing conditions on February 13, anticipating potential site visitors disruptions on main routes from Haryana to Punjab.
The Haryana authorities additionally ordered the suspension of cellular web companies and bulk SMS in seven districts-Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa- forward of farmers’ proposed march to Delhi.
Meanwhile, Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujeet Kapur together with Inspector General of Police (Ambala Range) Siwas Kaviraj and Ambala Superintendent of Police Jashandeep Singh Saturday visited the Shambhu border close to Ambala to take inventory of the preparations within the wake of farmers’ proposed march subsequent week.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha had introduced ‘Delhi Chalo’ march by greater than 200 farmers’ unions on February 13 to press the Centre to just accept a number of calls for, together with enactment of a regulation to ensure a minimal help worth (MSP) for crops.
In the site visitors advisory, police requested commuters going from Chandigarh to Delhi to take different routes through Derabassi, Barwala/Ramgarh, Saha, Shahbad, Kurukshetra, or via Panchkula, NH-344 Yamunanagar Indri/Pipli, Karnal.
Similarly, passengers travelling from Delhi to Chandigarh have been requested to succeed in their vacation spot through Karnal, Indri/Pipli, Yamunanagar, Panchkula, or Kurukshetra, Shahbad, Saha, Barwala, Ramgarh, in line with police. The street on the Ghaggar flyover on the Shambhu border was shut for site visitors motion with police inserting cemented barricades on the street.
The Ghaggar river mattress was additionally dug as much as stop farmers from reaching the freeway via tractors, stated officers. Commuters travelling in direction of Ambala via Shambhu border confronted inconvenience due to huge site visitors snarls, the advisory stated. The common public is appealed to journey to Punjab solely in pressing circumstances, it stated.
According to the advisory, pointers have been issued to all senior law enforcement officials to minimise inconvenience to most people and make sure the clean functioning of regulation and order. Preparations have been made to briefly change site visitors routes in affected districts, particularly Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Fatehabad, Sirsa, stated police.
However, site visitors motion will stay unaffected on all different routes within the state, stated police whereas interesting to the general public to chorus from pointless outings throughout this era. Ambala Deputy Commissioner Shaleen stated tight safety preparations have been made for February 13. Instructions have been issued to arrange checkpoints at locations from the place farmers are anticipated to come back, stated officers.
The police have already stocked up concrete blocks, barbed wire, sandbags, barricades and different gadgets on the Shambhu border in Ambala to cease the protesters from marching in direction of the nationwide capital. Similar preparations are being made in Jind and Fatehabad districts. The farmers have deliberate to go to Delhi from the Ambala-Shambhu border, Khanauri-Jind and the Dabwali border.
Haryana Police has already deployed 50 corporations of central paramilitary forces to take care of regulation and order within the state. Meanwhile, farmers are getting ready themselves for marching in direction of Delhi at the same time as they slammed the Haryana authorities for sealing the borders with Punjab.
“We are getting ready to participate in the march. We are taking all essential items including dry ration, cylinders, stoves, utensils and mattresses for the march,” stated a farmer in Sangrur. Farmers are readying their tractor trolleys to take part within the march, stated police.
In Rajpura, farmers took out a tractor march as a part of their preparations to go in direction of Delhi on February 13. To keep away from any detention by the Haryana police, a number of farmers have shifted from their houses to different locations in Ambala. A 3-member workforce of Union ministers on Thursday had held an in depth dialogue with the leaders of farmer organisations.
The farmer leaders had stated the Central ministers assured them that they might maintain a second spherical of the assembly quickly however that they had additionally acknowledged that their proposed ‘Delhi Chalo’ march on February 13 stands. Besides a authorized assure for MSP, the farmers are additionally demanding implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
In 2020, numerous farmers from Punjab and close by areas of Ambala gathered on the Shambhu border and broke police boundaries to march in direction of Delhi. The farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, held a year-long protest on Delhi’s border points- Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur- towards the three now-repealed farm legal guidelines.
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