Key Points:
- The Farmer’s rally on Republic Day has been shown a Green flag by the Delhi Police and lakhs of farmers are all set to parade on the country’s 72nd R-Day celebrations.
- The farmers’ tractor rally will begin after the Republic Day parade ends on Tuesday morning.
- The farmers have given a word that the ‘Tractor Parade’ will remain peaceful.
- A war room has been set up at each protest site to ensure effective coordination during the parade.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will join the protests against the farm laws on Monday.
The Farmer’s rally on Republic Day has been shown a Green flag by the Delhi Police and lakhs of farmers are all set to parade on the country’s 72nd R-Day celebrations. The farmers have given a word that the ‘Tractor Parade’ will remain peaceful and will not affect the official Republic Day parade in any way.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana have been surviving the bitter cold by camping at Delhi’s borders for several weeks, for revoking of the farm laws and a legal guarantee on the minimum support price for crops.
All You Need To Know About The TRACTOR RALLY On 26th January, 2021:
- The farmers’ tractor rally will begin after the Republic Day parade ends on Tuesday morning.
- Almost 15,000 tractors are present at the three border points and more are expected to join in, said the Delhi Police.
- A batch of 500 tractors-trolleys left Amritsar and several groups of growers from Phagwara, Hoshiarpur and other places of Punjab moved towards the national capital to take part of the tractor parade, farmer leaders said.
- During the journey till Delhi borders, arrangements for ‘langar’ have been made at several places on the national highway.
- The Republic Day tractor parade by agitating farmers will feature a number of tableaux from across states depicting village life, the protest against the Centre’s argumentative farm laws, and hailing their courage, according to organisers.
- A few children from Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region have also planned a tableau on farmer suicides.
- A war room has been set up at each protest site to ensure effective coordination during the parade.
- Almost 15,000 farmers left Nashik and reached Mumbai.
- Maharashtra State minister Nawab Malik had said that some farmer organisations have decided to hold protests in Mumbai between January 23-25.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will join the protests against the farm laws on Monday.
- State Congress president Balasaheb Thorat and Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray will also join the rally.
