#Ghazipur Border Clash

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Farmers Protest: बैरिकेडिंग तोड़कर प्राधिकरण गेट पर पहुंचे किसान, देखिए एक्सक्लूसिव तस्वीरें

Farmers Protest: बैरिकेडिंग तोड़कर प्राधिकरण गेट पर पहुंचे किसान, देखिए एक्सक्लूसिव तस्वीरें

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Cabinet to approve Farm Laws Repeal Bill today; to be tabled in Winter Session of Parliament

Cabinet to approve Farm Laws Repeal Bill today; to be tabled in Winter Session of Parliament

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised farmers that the BJP government would rescind the three controversial farm bills, the Federal Cabinet will today adopt the “Farm Repeal Bill 2021” for approval. The bill will be presented to Parliament during the winter session, which begins on November 29. The bill aims to undo three agricultural bills passed last year – the Farmers Agricultural…

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India: Journalists Covering Farmer Protests Charged

Farmers protest against three new farm laws in Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border, January 30, 2021.  © 2021 Pradeep Gaur / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images)

Eight journalists who covered the farmer protests in India and violence in Delhi on January 26, 2021 are facing baseless criminal charges, Human Rights Watch said today. The Indian authorities should drop the charges, which include sedition, promoting communal disharmony, and making statements prejudicial to national integration. “The Indian authorities’ response to protests has focused on discrediting peaceful protesters, harassing critics of the government, and prosecuting those reporting on the events,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government instead should conduct a transparent and impartial investigation into the January 26 violence in Delhi.” Hundreds of thousands of farmers have been protesting on the outskirts of Delhi since November 2020, demanding that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government withdraw three farm laws passed in September. The protests were peaceful until January 26, India’s Republic Day, when protesters broke through police barricades to enter Delhi and clashed with the police. A group of protesters breached the historic Red Fort and hoisted the Sikh religious flag alongside the national flag. Many of the farmers are Sikhs. One protester, Navreet Singh Hundal, 26, died in the violence. Delhi police said nearly 400 police officers were injured. The police in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Haryana states have filed cases of sedition and promoting communal disharmony against six senior journalists and editors – Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, Vinod K Jose, and a Congress party politician, Shashi Tharoor – for allegedly ���misreporting” the facts around the death of the protester. Delhi police, who report to the BJP home minister, Amit Shah, also filed a case against them. (Human Rights Watch)

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Spring has finally come to Delhi after a harsh winter. Yellow mustard fields are gravid with seed, and adolescent green wheat ears dance to the sound of bird calls. But evening winds bring in hundreds of hungry birds of prey that hover over the highway at Delhi’s eastern border at Ghazipur, patiently nibbling from garbage mountains while thousands of unarmed, sunburned farmers camp nearby. The scavengers hungrily await clashes between farmers and police and paramilitary forces in full riot gear with AK-47s. For any bloodletting on these borders has only one winner—a scavenger.

It’s been almost 90 days since Indian farmers began occupying Delhi’s arterial roads protesting three farm laws passed by India’s Parliament last September. The border regions surrounding the city have hosted millions of farmers over the cold winter months. There, battalions of security forces wait behind barbed wire. The roads are blocked and the air is abuzz with surveillance drones and reconnaissance aircraft. The electricity and water have been turned off and internet connectivity is restricted. And yet, the farmers’ revolution grows stronger every day.

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Budget session expected to be uproar in Bengal, Governor refuses to read Mamata government’s address Ghazipur border clash case: Tikait said- BJP is plotting to incite caste-based riots . Disclaimer: This story or news is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by our website/portal. [Publisher Source Link.]

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Samyukt Kisan Morcha urges UP Police to file farmers' complaint on Ghazipur border clash https://bit.ly/3AjLdXc

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Scuffle breaks out between BJP workers, farm law protestors at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border- The New Indian Express

Scuffle breaks out between BJP workers, farm law protestors at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border- The New Indian Express

By PTI GHAZIABAD: BJP workers and farm law protesters clashed in Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Wednesday. The ruckus took place when the BJP workers were carrying out a procession on a flyway where the farm law protesters, chiefly supporters of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, have been camping since November 2020, according to eye-witnesses. They said that as the two sides came near…

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Fugitive Deep Sidhu held, sent to 7-day police custody

Punjabi actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu, who was allegedly involved in the violence and vandalism at the Red Fort during the farmers’ tractor rally on January 26 against Centre’s farm laws, was arrested by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell late on Monday night and on Tuesday a Delhi court sent Sidhu to seven days police custody.

Sidhu was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Prigya Gupta. Police alleged he was one of the main instigators of the violent incidents at the Red Fort.

Sidhu’s counsel, however, claimed he had nothing to do with the violence and was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

According to Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, he was arrested from Karnal Bypass at 10.40 pm on Monday.

��Sidhu was wanted in connection with the case of instigating the crowd at the Red Fort on Republic Day. The Crime Branch will investigate his role in detail,” said the DCP.

Asked where he was hiding after the January 26 violence, Yadav said the investigation is in an initial stage.

A source said Sidhu was waiting for someone on road when he was nabbed. “Meanwhile, it was also revealed that Sidhu was in contact with a woman friend who lives in California. He used to make videos and send it to her, and she used to upload them on his Facebook account,” said the source. Sidhu kept changing his locations to evade arrest, he added.

The police had announced a cash reward of `1 lakh for information leading to Sidhu’s arrest. After the Republic Day 26 violence that had left over 500 security personnel injured and one protestor dead, Sidhu was posting videos on social media.

On January 26, thousands of protesting farmers who reached ITO from the Ghazipur border clashed with the police. Many of them driving tractors reached the Red Fort and entered the monument, where a religious flag was also hoisted.

In the FIR registered in connection with the Red Fort violence, police said two magazines with 20 live cartridges were snatched from two constables by protesters who also damaged vehicles and robbed anti-riot gear.

“The mob later hoisted different flags there. They also started creating nuisance on the rampart. The unruly mob was asked to come downstairs. They went to Meena Bazar area to enter into Red Fort. When the police tried to take them out of Lahore Gate, the mob became violent and attacked personnel. The mob thrashed the police personnel and threw them in the wells,” police had said in the FIR.

“They damaged a bus, a Government gypsy and other vehicles. The mob robbed the anti-riots gears -- cane stick, shields, body protectors, helmets etc from the police personnel,” it had also said.

Source: https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/pioneer-exclusive/fugitive-deep-sidhu-held--sent-to-7-day-police-custody.html

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Govt extends temporary internet ban at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri borders till 11 pm of February 2

Govt extends temporary internet ban at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri borders till 11 pm of February 2

The Ministry informed that these services have been suspended to maintain public safety and to avert public emergency. On Saturday the Ministry had temporarily suspended the internet services till January 31. The development comes against the backdrop of two recent incidents of violence within a week — mayhem during the January 26 farmers’ tractor rally, and the clash between protesting famers…

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Farmers protest: Thousands converge at Ghazipur despite increasing number of barricades

NEW DELHI: Despite an increasing number of barricades, thousands of farmers have been converging at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border following a tearful Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait’s impassioned appeal to protesters to bolster the stir. The tide of the over two-month protest against the farm laws, which had lost its sheen after the violence in Delhi during the tractors parade on Republic day, appears to have regained momentum as is evident from the increased number of tents set up at the protest site. Many protesters waited for hours to talk to Tikait or take a selfie with him as the farmer leader remained busy meeting his supporters and talking to the media. A Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) member said Tikait has been sleeping only for around three hours a day for the last three days. “He had complained of blood pressure issues, but is doing fine now,” the member said. Shiromani Akal Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal visited the Ghazipur border to lend his support to the protesting farmers. Badal, whose party pulled out of the NDA government over the three farm laws, met Tikait for around 10 minutes. Farmers, carrying tricolours and raising slogans, took out marches, while a group of youths gathered at a spot near the Delhi-Meerut expressway and danced to patriotic songs till the sun went down. The scene was quite different just three days ago. A day after the Republic Day violence in Delhi, when a section of farmers taking part in the tractor parade broke through barriers, clashed with police and stormed the Red Fort for a few hours, the farmer agitation seemed to be over. Morale plummeted and many farmers returned home. On Wednesday night, the atmosphere was tense at Ghazipur. The Ghaziabad administration issued an “ultimatum” to the protesters occupying a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut expressway to vacate as the January 26 clashes painted a not-so-peaceful picture of the peasant community. As security presence at the site escalated and fears grew that the protesters would be forcibly evicted, an emotional Tikait broke down while talking to reporters. “The protest won’t be called off. Farmers are being met with injustice,” he said and even threatened to end his life for the cause. A layer of barbed wire fencing was added to the existing multi-layered barricading at the protest site. But that couldn’t keep people from reaching the area where farmers have been camping since late November. Sarita Rana, a BKU member from Gurgaon, said she walked two kilometres to reach the protest site. Rana said she and her husband couldn’t sleep a bit the night they watched a video of Tikait crying. “We have never seen him crying. It moved us,” she said. “The government has been trying to scuttle the protest by blocking roads and withdrawing facilities such as water and power supply. But this has strengthened our resolve to fight on,” Rana said. The farmers kept arriving with water-filled cans from their hometown for their beloved leader. According to a BKU member’s estimate, over 10,000 farmers have gathered at the UP Gate protest site on Sunday. Tikait said he respects the sentiments of the protesters and the water-filled cans will be emptied in the Ganga. Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s monthly broadcast, wherein on Sunday he maintained that his government is committed to “modernising” farming and has been taking many steps, many urged him to listen to the ‘Mann ki Baat’ of the farmers. “If a politician can come to our house asking for our votes, why cannot they come to us here to resolve the issue… If PM Modi wants to talk, he should give us a phone number to call,” said 64-year Satbir Singh from Haryana’s Jind district. Ravinder Singh, 63, from Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur, said farmers want to return to their fields, “but that will happen only when the three laws are repealed and a legal guarantee ensuring minimum support price is provided.”

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2021/01/31/farmers-protest-thousands-converge-at-ghazipur-despite-increasing-number-of-barricades/

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Farmers' Protest: Man who attacked cop with sword on R-Day, 43 others arrested

Farmers’ Protest: Man who attacked cop with sword on R-Day, 43 others arrested

India oi-Briti Roy Barman | Published: Saturday, January 30, 2021, 10:27 [IST] New Delhi, Jan 30: Delhi Police have arrested 44 people, including man who attacked a police officer on Friday with a sword during clashes at Singhu border. At Ghazipur, one of the other protest sites, thousands of demonstrators dug in on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, defying the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum…

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From teargas on Delhi border to clashes at Red Fort, how R-Day tractor rally devolved into chaos - India News , Firstpost

From teargas on Delhi border to clashes at Red Fort, how R-Day tractor rally devolved into chaos – India News , Firstpost

Six DTC buses and five police vehicles were damaged in the clashes that broke out at ITO during the farmers’ tractor rally in the Delhi-NCR, according to an FIR registered in connection with the incident Farmers break the police barricades at the Ghazipur border as move towards Akshardham during their tractor rally on Republic Day in New Delhi on 26 January. PTI As India celebrated its 72nd…

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BJP workers, farm law protestors clash in Ghazipur

BJP workers, farm law protestors clash in Ghazipur

BJP workers and protesting farmers clashed at Ghazipur border on Wednesday afternoon. Farmers alleged the BJP workers raised slogans near the stage, which led to scuffles between two sides. Both BKU leader Vijendra Singh and BJP workers submitted complaint letters to the police. “We received a complaint from BJP workers that they were attacked by farmers at Ghazipur border. They have alleged that…

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Home Ministry suspends Internet services in parts of Delhi-NCR as tractor rally turns violent

Home Ministry suspends Internet services in parts of Delhi-NCR as tractor rally turns violent

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday suspended internet in Singhu border, Ghazipur border, Tikri border, Mukarba Chowk and Nangloi from 12:00 hrs to 23:59 hrs amid clashes between the protesting farmers and the Delhi Police during the farmers’ tractor rally on Tuesday leading to one farmers’ death. The order issued by MHA deputy secretary Shailendra Vikram Singh stated that even the adjoining…

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Farmers' Protest: In 1988, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait's father Mahendra Singh brought Rajiv Gandhi govt to its knees

Farmers' Protest: In 1988, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait's father Mahendra Singh brought Rajiv Gandhi govt to its knees

The farmers had been peacefully protesting against the Centre’s contentious three farm laws at the Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri borders of the national capital for over two months. However, the protests took a violent turn when a group of farmers broke through police barricades and entered parts of Delhi not permitted for their Republic Day tractor rally. There were clashes between the protesters…