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“Why are they not being allowed to enter Delhi? This is wrong. We are with the farmers.”Arvind Kejriwal
This (the BJP-led) government has not fulfilled the promises it made to farmers, so it is all but natural that farmers would protest. It is unfortunate and we fully support the farmers.Akhilesh Yadav
गाँधी जी के सन्देश 'अहिंसा' और शास्त्री जी के नारे "जय जवान, जय किसान" की धज्जियाँ उड़ाने वाली बर्बर भाजपा सरकार का आज पर्दाफ़ाश हो गया;
— Congress (@INCIndia) October 2, 2018
इनको ये अहसास नहीं है कि अन्नदाता, अंग्रेजी हुकूमत की तर्ज वाली इनकी लाठियों, आँसू गैस के गोलों और पानी की बौछारों से नहीं डरेगा #Gandhi150 pic.twitter.com/YvGeIbNogO
The rally was proceeding in a disciplined manner. If we don’t tell our government about our problems then whom do we tell? Do we go to Pakistan or Bangladesh?Naresh Tikait, president, BKU
“Instead of providing relief to farmers, they are exasperating the crisis further, forcing farmers to be under debt burden and distress suicides. We haven’t seen such an agrarian distress in India since independence [sic].”Sitaram Yechury
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has spoken with the farmer leaders of the BKU regarding the protest, which were stopped at the UP-Delhi border on Tuesday, media reports said.
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— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 2, 2018
विश्व अहिंसा दिवस पर BJP का दो-वर्षीय गांधी जयंती समारोह शांतिपूर्वक दिल्ली आ रहे किसानों की बर्बर पिटाई से शुरू हुआ।
अब किसान देश की राजधानी आकर अपना दर्द भी नहीं सुना सकते! #KisanKrantiYatra
Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat talked to protesting farmers on Delhi-UP border. He assured considering their demands. However, Bharatiya Kisan Union president Naresh Tikait said farmers will not accept government assurance, and will go ahead with the protest.
GS Shekhawat, Mos Agricultures, told ANI that the farmers have agreed to call off the agitation.
“We held discussions with representatives of Bharatiya Kisan Union last night. Another meeting was held at Home Minister's house this morning. In the end, we reached agreements on some issues and they assured us that the agitation will be called off, “ he said.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday termed the police lathi-charge on agitating farmers the "height" of anarchy and warned that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party should be prepared to bear its consequences.
Condemning the police action, Mayawati said, "This is the height of the BJP government's anarchy and it shall remain prepared to bear its consequences." "The BJP, which came to power promising to bring the good days of the farmers' by doubling their income, has targeted them with tear-gas shells, lathis when they only wanted to march to the Gandhi sthal on Gandhi Jayanti and hold protest demonstration over their problems" the Dalit leader said.
All schools and colleges in Ghaziabad will remain closed on Wednesday as a preventive measure in view of the ongoing farmers agitation, ANI reported.
#WATCH: Farmers who were stopped during 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra' yesterday are moving towards Delhi's Kisan Ghat after police opened barricades at Delhi-UP border. pic.twitter.com/byNIu549Am
— ANI (@ANI) October 2, 2018
Led by Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Naresh Tikait, over 200 tractors carrying thousands of farmers reached Kisan Ghat in Delhi. Tikait declared it as the "victory of farmers" and said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has failed in its "motives".
"The farmers remained unfazed despite all the hardships. We have been marching for 12 days now, farmers are tired as well. We will continue to demand our rights to the government but for now we are ending the march," Tikait told IANS at Kisan Ghat.
He said the farmers will be returning early morning on Wednesday.
Amid massive deployment of security personnel at Uttar Pradesh-Delhi border, the farmers reinforced their march to the national capital after obtaining necessary permissions from the administration.
Shouting anti-BJP slogans, the farmers, with blisters on feet, reached Kisan Ghat at around 2 am on Wednesday.
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