On Thursday afternoon, a group of 200 farmers arrived in Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to start the first session of the “Kisan Sansad”, or Fa...
On Thursday afternoon, a group of 200 farmers arrived in Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to start the first session of the “Kisan Sansad”, or Farmers’ Parliament, as part of their eight-month-long protest against the three contentious farm laws passed by the Modi government in September last year.
Organised by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella of over 40 farmers’ unions and associations, the Kisan Sansad will run parallel to the monsoon session of Parliament now underway.
But the inaugural gathering was rather subdued and the entrance to the venue was heavily barricaded.
The kisan morcha had coordinated with the Delhi Police to ferry 200 farmers in five buses to New Delhi from Singhu, one of the protest sites bordering between Delhi and Haryana. The group had carefully vetted the farmers attending the first session and its leaders said this practice will continue till the concluding session on August 13.
The tight security at Jantar Mantar was prompted by the violence that took place on Republic Day as thousands of farmers in tractors broke through barricades to enter the national capital and clashed with police officials at the Red Fort, said Shiv Kumar Sharma Kakaji of the Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh and one of the leaders of...
