Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait’s breaking into tears, alleging that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, in “collusion” with the Uttar Police, had “conspired” to attack fellow farmers en route their villages after his impending arrest was the elixir that revived a thinning protest late last night. The Ghazipur Border, which had begun wearing a deserted look following the violence on January 26 in Delhi during the farmers’ tractor rally, has once again turned into a bustling village of sorts.
A large number of farmers from various villages in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab began pouring in at the Delhi-UP border after Tikait broke down. Slogans like ‘Kisan Ekta Zindabad’ (Long live farmers’ unity), ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ (Hail the soldier, hail the farmer) reverberated through the protest site on a chilly January 28 night.
Following the violence in the national capital on Republic Day, 22 FIRs were registered at different police stations in Delhi. Thirty-seven leaders from various farmers’ unions, which have been staging sit-in
— source newsclick.in | Tarique Anwar | 29 Jan 2021
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