Farmers also clashed with security personnel at two border points.
Chandigarh:
A day before farmers were to resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, the Haryana Police urged their Punjab counterparts to seize bulldozers and other earthmoving equipment from the interstate border, which they say the protesters used to break barricades. Will use.
Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujit Kapoor, in an urgent letter to his Punjab counterpart Gaurav Yadav, said these could pose a threat to the security forces deployed on the border.
Later, in a letter to senior police officials, the Punjab DGP said that no JCB and other heavy earthmoving equipment should be allowed to reach Khanauri and Shambhu border points as inputs indicated that the protesters would break the barricade and enter Haryana. Are planning to enter.
Farmer leaders participating in the ‘Delhi Chalo’ movement on Monday rejected the Centre’s proposal to procure three pulses, maize and cotton at the minimum support price (MSP) by government agencies for five years and announced that they would on Wednesday Will resume our march on.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha are leading the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to put pressure on the government to accept their demands, including legal guarantee of MSP for crops and farm loan waiver.
“It has been reliably learned that heavy earth-moving equipment including Proclans (excavators), JCBs etc., which have been further modified/armour-plated, have been acquired by the protesting farmers and deployed at those border locations. “We have gone to where the protesters are currently camping,” the letter written by the Haryana DGP said.
It said, “These machines are to be used by the protesters to damage the barricades, which may pose a serious threat to the police and paramilitary forces on duty and is likely to compromise the security scenario in Haryana. “
“In view of this, you are requested to take all necessary steps to immediately seize these machines from the protest sites on the border and take all preventive steps to prevent Proclean/JCB machines and other heavy machinery from causing harm to the security forces. Access to protest sites is not allowed,” it added.
Haryana Police also requested their Punjab counterparts to issue a strict warning to the owners or operators of such equipment not to provide their equipment to the protesting farmers as it would be “a criminal act and they will be criminally liable for the same”.
“Being a matter of utmost urgency, the matter may be dealt with on top priority,” the letter said.
In his letter to Punjab Police officials, DGP Yadav said that keeping in mind the impact on the law and order situation, it is directed that the movement of ADGPs, IGPs, DIGs, Police Commissioners and SSPs of all ranges “JCBs” Take immediate steps to stop it. Deploying ‘nakas’, patrolling and (lifting) other heavy earth-moving equipment towards the Haryana-Punjab border at Khanauri and Shambhu.
The communication said inputs indicate that the protesters plan to break the barricades put up by the Haryana Police and enter the state, a move that will worsen the law and order situation in both the states.
The protesting farmers are camping at Shambhu and Khanauri points on the Punjab and Haryana border after their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march was stopped by security forces on February 13.
Farmers also clashed with security personnel at two border points.
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