R-Day farmers tractor rally live updates | Samyukt Kisan Morcha calls off rally with immediate effect
Protesting farmers clash with securitymen during their tractor rally near Nagloi in New Delhi on January 26, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI
While farmer leaders disowned the protesters, one young man was seen hoisting a yellow triangular flag at the Red Fort flagpole.
Tens of thousands of farmers atop tractors broke barriers, clashed with police and entered the city from various points to lay siege to the Red Fort and climb the flagpole on Republic Day.
While farmer leaders, who have been spearheading the two-month protest at the national capital’s border points to demand a repeal of the farm laws, disowned the protesters, one young man was seen hoisting a yellow triangular flag at the flagpole – the centrepiece of the country’s Independence Day celebrations. The saffron flag was the 'Nishan Sahib', a symbol of Sikh religion seen at all Gurdwara complexes The other flag appeared to be of a farmer union.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 41 farmer unions, alleged that some "antisocial elements" infiltrated their otherwise peaceful movement.
Here are the latest updates:
Anti-social elements were behind violence during tractor parade, says Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said that some anti-social elements were behind the violence during the farmers’ tractor parade in the national capital today.
It was due to the Delhi Police’s “actions” that some anti-social elements entered the parade and caused the violence, he said.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesman in a statement also alleged that the Delhi Police had wrongly placed barricades at some places of the pre-decided routes of the parade.
"This was done intentionally to misguide farmers," Mr. Tikait said, adding that because of this, farmers on tractors went astray.
This gave anti-social elements the opportunity to enter the tractor rally, he claimed.
BKU believes in peaceful demonstration and will identify the miscreants behind the violence.
TMr. ikait urged protesting farmers to keep themselves away from violence. The coordination committee members of the parade will look into the reasons behind the violence, he said.
Police snap power supply to Red Fort
Police snapped power supply to the Red Fort in order to clear the complex of protesters.
"There are no protesting farmers at ITO crossing and the situation is under control," PTI quoted an official as saying.
However, there were still around 500 protesting farmers in the Red Fort till Tuesday late evening while at Mukarba Chowk, hundreds of farmers started moving back to the Singhu border points, the news agency reported quoting another official.
Four FIRs against protesters
Delhi Police have registered four FIRs against protesters for damaging public property and attacking police personnel in East Delhi area.
83 police personnel and one civilian injured in today's protest: Delhi Police
According to Delhi Police data, 83 police personnel and one civilian injured in today's protest. Seventy-seven police personnel were injured at ITO, Tilak Marg and Red Fort. Six others were injured at Nangloi, Peeragarhi, Najafgarh and Paschim Vihar. One civilian was injured at Tilak Marg.
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I feel ashamed and take responsibility: Yogendra Yadav
Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav said he felt "ashamed" of the way the farmers' tractor parade turned out, and took responsibility for it.
"Being a part of the protest," he said, "I feel ashamed of the way things proceeded and I take responsibility of it. Violence impacts any kind of protest in a wrong way. I cannot say at the moment who did it and who did not, but prima facie it looks like it has been done by the people that we kept out of the farmers’ protest," Mr. Yadav told a TV channel.
"I appealed continuously that we stick to whatever route was decided and not deviate. Only if the movement goes peacefully, we will be able to win," said Mr. Yadav.
Samyukt Kisan Morcha calls off rally
Samyukt Kisan Morcha has just issued a statement calling off the Kisan Republic Day Parade with immediate effect, and has appealed to all participants to immediately return to their respective protest sites.
SKM announced the movement will continue peacefully and further steps will be discussed and decided soon.
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The police remove the buses at Peeragarhi Chowk to finally allow the farmers to march ahead.
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Punjab CM orders high alert
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh termed unacceptable the violence perpetrated by certain elements during the tractor rally in Delhi on Tuesday and urged all genuine farmers to immediately vacate Delhi and return to the borders, where they had been protesting peacefully for the past two months.
The Chief Minister ordered a high alert the State amid the tension and violence in Delhi and directed Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta to ensure that law and order in the state is not disturbed at any cost.
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