LIVE: ‘Chakka Jam’ will be held peacefully across India, says Rakesh Tikait

Farmers’ protest Are living updates Working day seventy two: Stability at the city’s border points around the 3 protest web pages have been tightened by deploying additional forces and placing up multi-layered barricades, barbed wires and nails studded on the streets ahead of the proposed ‘chakka jam’ by farmers protesting the Centre’s 3 agri laws.

Forward of the February 6 ‘chakka jam’ by agitating farmers, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday claimed the nationwide protest will be tranquil and extra that there will be no ‘chakka jam’ in Delhi.

Amid the Opposition’s continual assault on the governing administration in Parliament in excess of the farmers protests, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar on Friday claimed that as for every the Centre’s 3 new farm laws, farmers can terminate their agreement at any time and can withdraw from their settlement devoid of any penalty.
 

Throughout a dialogue in Parliament on Thursday, several opposition events questioned the governing administration to withdraw the 3 contentious farm laws devoid of creating it a prestige difficulty and not to treat the agitating farmers as “enemies”.

The protesting farmers have expressed the apprehension that these laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum aid rate (MSP) program, leaving them at the “mercy” of massive businesses.

Having said that, the governing administration has preserved that the new laws will provide superior chances to farmers and introduce new technologies in agriculture.