It’s destination Ghazipur border for many villagers

: Farmers from villages of the western Uttar Pradesh region descended on the Ghazipur border on Sunday in their tractors and vehicles carrying ration and other commodities for the protesters demanding repeal of three new agriculture reform laws.

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) activists and leaders from Saharanpur were among those who marched towards the Ghazipur border in large numbers. BKU youth wing state vice-president Vinay Kumar said farmers were carrying ration and other commodities with them and they would run a bhandara at the Ghazipur border for the agitating farmers.

So Singh, the pradhan of Marakpur village in Meerut, claimed that at least 15 tractor-trollies and vehicles from his village had joined the protest at the Ghazipur border in the past two days and the support to the movement would continue.

Singh claimed that many people from neighbouring villages of Rahawati, Bana and Bhainsa also had gone to the Ghazipur border.

“People are annoyed and they want to take the movement to a logical conclusion,” he said.

Dairy owners of Saharanpur also marched in support of farmers and handed over a memorandum to the district magistrate. Dairy Sanchalak Sangharsh Samiti president Sanjay Walia said the Samiti had given a call to its members to support the farmers’ movement.

In Meerut, lawyers also took out a march under the leadership of Meerut Bar Association president Mahaveer Tyagi and general secretary Sachin Choudhary and handed over a memorandum to the district magistrate. They demanded an inquiry by a Supreme Court judge into the vandalism at Red Fort on Republic Day and said innocent farmers were being falsely implicated.

Meanwhile, villagers resumed their indefinite dharna (sit-in) at Karnawal village in Meerut in support of the farmers. The villagers had been staging a sit-in at a temple premises since December 21 but were allegedly forcibly removed from there by the police on January 26.