Farmers will hold peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar from July 22: Union leader

Farmers will hold peaceful demonstrations at Jantar Mantar demanding scrapping of the agri laws and no protester will go to parliament where the monsoon session is underway a farm union leader said on Tuesday after a meeting with Delhi police officialsRashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Mahasangh national president Shiv Kumar Kakka told PTI that every day from July 22 200 farmers wearing identification badges will go to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border to hold the protestThe Samyukta Kisan Morcha SKM an umbrella body of over 40 farmer unions spearheading the stir against the central farm laws had planned that around 200 farmers will protest outside Parliament every day from July 22 during the monsoon sessionThe monsoon session of Parliament started on Monday and is scheduled to conclude on August 13We informed the police that every day 200 farmers will go to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border in buses during the monsoon session It will be a peaceful demonstration and protesters will have identification badges When police asked us to reduce the number of protesters we told them to focus on the lawandorder situation and also gave assurance that the protest will be peaceful Kakka saidNo written communication has been received from the police yet he saidPolice were informed that the protest will be peaceful We will sit at Jantar Mantar from 10 am to 5 pm Nobody will go to parliament and neither we will allow any political person to come to the protest he saidA tractor parade in Delhi on January 26 that was to highlight the demands of farmer unions to repeal three new agri laws had dissolved into anarchy on the streets of the national capital as thousands of protesters broke through barriers fought with the police overturned vehicles and hoisted a religious flag from the ramparts of the iconic Red FortDuring a meeting on Sunday the Delhi Police had asked farmer unions to reduce the number of people attending the protest but it was declined by the farm union leadersA day later SKM accused the Delhi Police of spreading misinformation by describing their protest outside Parliament as Sansad gheraoSKM has already stated that there are no plans of laying siege to parliament and the protest will be peaceful and disciplined it had said in a statementThe umbrella body of farmers union had earlier said that two days before the monsoon session begins a chetavani patra warning letter will be issued to all opposition MPs to protest the farm laws inside the HouseThousands of farmers from across the country have been agitating at the Delhi borders against the three farm laws that they claim will do away with the Minimum Support Price system leaving them at the mercy of big corporationsOver 10 rounds of talks with the government which has been projecting the laws at major agricultural reforms have failed to break the deadlock between the two partiesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever