“Farmers will continue to come to the border as before,” says BKU general secretary Yudhveer Singh.
answer to Delhi Police on Friday removed the barricades on the Ghazipur borderYudhveer Singh, general secretary of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, said the protest at the Ghazipur border would continue “with more vigour”. “Farmers will continue to come to the border as before.”
Mr Singh said the move does not seem to indicate the government reaching out to farmers for a peaceful solution to their opposition to controversial agricultural laws. “My 40 years of experience in protesting for farmers tells me that the government wants to increase it” [the impasse] Instead of arriving at a decision, go ahead. ‘The government wants to play, not decide,’ Mr. Singh said.
He said that the farmers never wanted to create problems for the general public. “It was Delhi Police who put up these barricades after the January 26 incident. They seem to have removed them after the Supreme Court order.”
Earlier, BKU national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait told a news agency that after removing the barricades, the farmers would go to the Parliament where the controversial agricultural laws were enacted.
“United Kisan Morcha is meeting today and will take a decision on it,” Mr. Singh said.
On the possible change in the attitude of the state government towards the protest, Mr. Singh said that as far as the demands of the farmers are concerned, he does not see any difference between the central and the state government.
On farmers still having traffic on the shortest lane on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, BKU state vice-president Rajveer Singh said the platform would not be removed. “It is not possible to remove us by force. Dialogue is the only way out,” he said, adding that they will continue to provide passage to emergency vehicles.
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