Farmers' protest
Protesting farmers seek permission to hold tractor rally on R-Day
New Delhi/IBNS: Farmers protesting against the Centre's contentious farm laws have sought written permission from the Delhi Police to hold the massive tractor rally they planned on Republic Day, reports said.
More than a thousand tractors from across Punjab and Haryana are supposed to take part in the rally, which will be held on Ring Road.
The farmers have said that their rally would not interfere with the grand Republic Day parade held on Rajpath.
The police will take a call on the matter after a meeting on Sunday, reports said.
The eleventh round of meeting between the Centre and the representatives of farmers' unions ended in a stalemate on Friday like the previous ones with the farmers refusing to accept the government's latest proposal to put the controversial laws on hold for a one and half years.
A day after Centre proposed to put the farm laws on hold for a period of one to one-and-a-half years, protesting farmer unions on Thursday rejected the proposal and reiterated their demand for a full repeal of three farm laws.
However, this time no more dates for future meetings had been set by the Centre.
In fact, the central government had now put the ball in the farmers' court.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had told farmers "the ball is your court now" adding to media that he was "sad" because farmer leaders did not seem to have "farmers' welfare at the heart of (their) talks".
Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, are staging a sit-in protest along the Delhi borders.
The protest started on November 26. The farmers are demanding a complete rollback of the new farm reform laws and a guarantee on the Minimum Support Price.
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