New Delhi: Security was increased along the borders of the national capital ahead of a tractor rally of farmers on Thursday morning.
The farmers will hold the rally at 11 am at four borders of Delhi in protest against the Centre’s agriculture laws. They had on Tuesday deferred their proposed tractor march from January 6 to January 7 due to bad weather forecast.
The city has been receiving rains sporadically over the past four days.
Braving severe cold and sporadic rains, thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country have been camping at several Delhi border points for over 40 days, demanding repeal of farm laws, a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues.
The seventh round of talks between protesting unions and three central ministers ended inconclusively on Monday as farmer groups stuck to their demand for the repeal of three laws, while the government listed out various benefits of the new acts for…