Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said that the farmers’ agitation against the three agricultural laws will not end before October, ANI reported.
“Our slogan is ‘kanoon wapsi nahi, to ghar wapsi nahi’ [no returning home till the farm laws are repealed],” the farmer leader was quoted as saying by the news agency. “This agitation will not conclude before October, it will not end anytime soon.”
Tikait’s comment came as the police clamped down on farmers’ protest sites in the aftermath of the violence during the Republic Day tractor rally. Barricades and barbed wires were seen at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur.
Barricading by security personnel at the Ghaziabad – Delhi border. Video via @JatinPaul @the_hindu pic.twitter.com/8AgRTIppvn
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At Singhu border, another prominent protest site, the police used concrete barriers to block farmers. They also got iron rods hooked between two…