Farmers object as Delhi police puts up posters at Tikri border

Samyukta Kisan Morcha said such notices are irrelevant as peasants have been staging a peaceful protest by exercising their constitutional rights

A senior police officer said the posters were pasted at the border area after the protest started.

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PTI   |   New Delhi   |   24.02.21:  Farmer unions on Tuesday objected to Delhi police putting up posters at Tikri border allegedly asking them to vacate the protest site.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions under which the protesting farmers are gathered at Delhi’s borders to seek repeal of three laws, said: “Delhi police have placed some posters at the Tikri border protest site where farmers have been warned that they will have to vacate the area. Such posters are irrelevant as farmers have been staging a peaceful protest by exercising their constitutional rights.... We will oppose the conspiracy to end the protest with these kinds of threats and warnings.” 

Delhi police described the posters as “routine”. “The posters were pasted at the border area after the protest started. It is a routine exercise. The police have conveyed to them through the posters that they are sitting in the jurisdiction of Haryana and they are not allowed to enter the national capital unlawfully,” a senior police officer said.

Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at three Delhi border points — Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur — for nearly 90 days, demanding the repeal of the three agriculture laws and a legal guarantee on minimum support price for crops.