Topic: farmers protest

Bharatiya Kisan Union (Rajewal) president Balbir Singh Rajewal on Saturday said BJP and RSS were behind Friday’s stone-pelting incident on farmers at Singhu border.

Canadian MP and head of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Jagmeet Singh has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to condemn the Republic Day violence against agitating farmers, immediately.

Six human rights organisations in Punjab including Punjab Documentation and Advocacy Project (PDAP), Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), Peoples' Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), Khalra Mission Organisation, Lawyers For Human Rights International ( LFHRI) and Punjab Human Rights Organization (PHRO) have raised deep concern over the disappearances of hundreds of the agitating farmers in Delhi and said "as many as 200 protesters have been detained, while many have been booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and Sedition sections in Delhi following the incidents took place at Red Fort on January 26."

Farmer unions protesting at different borders near Delhi have called for a fast on January 30, saying they would celebrate the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi as 'Sadbhavna Diwas'.

Speaking on the police crackdown on farmers protesting at different borders of Delhi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the threatening farmers is a great sin.

Opposition parties have decided to boycott the president’s address in Parliament on Friday, in solidarity with the farmers protesting the farm laws.