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

Farmers’ protest Reside updates Day 72: Stability at the city’s border points close to the 3 protest websites have been tightened by deploying further forces and putting up multi-layered barricades, barbed wires and nails studded on the streets in advance of the proposed ‘chakka jam’ by farmers protesting the Centre’s 3 agri legal guidelines.

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

Amid the Opposition’s ongoing attack on the federal government in Parliament about the farmers protests, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar on Friday reported that as for every the Centre’s 3 new farm legal guidelines, farmers can terminate their agreement at any time and can withdraw from their agreement without any penalty.

Throughout a discussion in Parliament on Thursday, various opposition events questioned the federal government to withdraw the 3 contentious farm legal guidelines without making it a status situation and not to take care of the agitating farmers as “enemies”.

The protesting farmers have expressed the apprehension that these legal guidelines would pave the way for the dismantling of the bare minimum assist rate (MSP) technique, leaving them at the “mercy” of large firms.

On the other hand, the federal government has taken care of that the new legal guidelines will carry greater alternatives to farmers and introduce new technologies in agriculture.