“The sit-in protest will proceed, the talks have failed,” Tikait stated.
The protesters are demanding motion over the police lathi-charge in Karnal on August 28. Their foremost demand centres round IAS officer Ayush Sinha, was caught on tape allegedly telling police to “break heads” if the protesters crossed the barricades.
“Talks lasted for three hours however failed. Officers are usually not able to droop Ayush Sinha and lodge a case towards him. The officers are getting instructions from Chandigarh. So we’ve determined to proceed our protest right here,” Tikait advised the reporters.
He additional stated thay farmers from UP, Punjab, and different locations will be part of the protest in Karnal.
“Together with our protests in Delhi, this agitation may also proceed till our calls for are met. Our demand is that the officer is suspended,” he added.
Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav stated, “Haryana authorities continues to be not prepared to simply accept the calls for of the farmers. They denied lodging a criticism towards the police official which proves that the order to do a lathi-charge on farmers on August 28 was ordered by the Haryana chief minister who’s backing him”.
Safety had been beefed up right here on Monday, a day earlier than farmers’ mahapanchayat, and central forces deployed.
The farmers had three conferences with the district administration yesterday however no fruitful dialogue passed off, which resulted in farmers proceed their sit-in on the mini secretariat.
The Haryana authorities on Tuesday prolonged the non permanent suspension of cellular web and SMS service in Karnal district to curb the “unfold of inflammatory materials and rumours” in the course of the protest.
Farmers have been protesting on the completely different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 final yr towards the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines.
Farmer leaders and the Centre have held a number of rounds of talks however the deadlock stays.
(With company inputs)