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According to authorities, these excavators may trigger damage to security workers released at the 2 border points of Punjab and Haryana if opposing farmers utilized them.
The Haryana Police on Wednesday asked owners of excavators to withdraw their devices from the demonstration website, where farmers are set to resume their’Delhi Chalomarch, else they will be held accountable for action. According to cops, these excavators may trigger damage to security workers released at the 2 border points of Punjab and Haryana if opposing farmers utilized them.
“For owners and operators of Poclains, JCBs: Please do not offer your devices to the protestors and withdraw them from the demonstration website if currently done, as they might be utilized to trigger damage to security forces. It is a non-bailable offense and you might be held criminally accountable,” stated authorities in a post on X.
Farmers, opposing at the 2 border points of Punjab and Haryana, will resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march on Wednesday after they declined the BJP-led Centre’s proposition for acquiring pulses, maize and cotton at the MSP by federal government companies for 5 years.
The Haryana Police on Tuesday advised its Punjab equivalents to take bulldozers and other earthmoving devices from the interstate border which they state protesters will utilize to break barriers.
These might posture a hazard to the security forces released at the border, Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujeet Kapoor stated in an immediate interaction to his Punjab equivalent Gaurav Yadav.
Later on, in an interaction to senior law enforcement officers, the Punjab DGP stated that no JCBs and other heavy earthmoving devices ought to be enabled to reach Khanauri and Shambu border points as inputs suggest that the protesters prepare to break barriers and get in Haryana.
“It is dependably discovered that heavy earthmoving devices, consisting of poclain (digger), JCB and so on, that have actually been more modified/armour-plated have actually been obtained by opposing farmers and have actually been released at the border places where the protesters are camping today,” the letter composed by the Haryana DGP specified.
“These makers are suggested to be utilized by the protesters to harm the barriers consequently positioning severe risk to the cops and paramilitary forces released on responsibility and are most likely to jeopardize the security situation in Haryana,” it stated.
“In view of this, you are asked for to take all essential actions to right away take these devices from the objecting websites at the borders and take all preventive actions so that the poclain/JCB devices and other heavy equipment which might trigger damage to security forces are not permitted to reach the objecting websites,” it included.
Countless farmers, who started the march to Delhi on February 13, were stopped at the Haryana border itself, where they encountered security workers. The farmers have actually been camping at the Shambhu and Khanauri points on Punjab’s border with Haryana ever since.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha are leading the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to push the federal government to accept their needs, consisting of a legal assurance of MSP for crops and a farm loan waiver.
The last round of talks in between farmers and the federal government ended previous midnight on Sunday when a panel of ministers proposed purchasing 5 crops– moong dal, urad dal, tur dal, maize and cotton– from farmers at minimum assistance rate (MSP) for 5 years through main firms.
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