Subhechcha Ganguly 
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and other farmer groups are organising a mahapanchayat at the Jantar Mantar on Monday, August 22, to protest unemployment, and security has been tightened at Delhi’s borders as a result. Section 144 has been imposed in the national capital, and police have increased security at the three border entry points to Delhi, which are located in Ghazipur, Singhu, and Tikri. According to police, all vehicles entering the capital are being checked, and officers are on ‘alert mode.’ The Delhi Police, according to the details, has denied permission to protest at Jantar Mantar. According to a DCP statement, the farmers’ union requested a permit to protest at Jantar Mantar on Monday, but it was denied due to high demand.Aside from the borders, which included Ghazipur, Singhu, and Tikri, major stretches of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, the Palam flyover, Aurobindo Marg, Ring Road (near Indraprastha Park), the Ghaziabad-Wazirabad road, and the Munirka road, among others, experienced traffic jams. While the Prime Minister announced that the three farm laws would be repealed on November 19, 2021, the government has resisted calls to make MSP a legal right. In response to a question in Parliament last month, the government clarified that it had not given any assurances to the protesting farmers on this matter.Tikait, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent face of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), was stopped at the border around afternoon, according to a Delhi Police official. “He was then detained and taken to the Madhu Vihar police station, where police spoke to him and asked him to return,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak. As more protesters gathered, the Delhi Police detained some farmers near the Ghazipur border in order to “control the crowd.”
By Subhechcha Ganguly
