The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who is leading farmers' ongoing agitation at Ghazipur border, on Thursday said that protesting farmers will serve water and food to the commuters stuck on roads during 'Chakka Jam'.
“The farmers have decided that there will be a three-hour-long ‘chakka jaam’ on February 6 and it will not be in Delhi but everywhere outside the city. The people that will be stuck in They will be given food and water. We will tell them what is the Central Government doing with us,” he said.
Stringent security continued on Wednesday at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, one of the key protest sites where thousands of farmers are camping with a demand that the Centre repeal the new agri-marketing laws enacted last September.
Meanwhile, several political leaders visited the border on Thursday and extended their support to the agitating farmers.
Former MLA from Moradabad and senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Samarpal Singh, along with his supporters also met Rakesh Tikait at the panchayat ghar on the spot and reiterated his support for the movement.
He was accompanied by hundreds of workers including Moradabad Supritendent of Police District President Jayveer Yadav and Babar Khan.
On Thursday, the iron nails studded on roads at Ghazipur border to restrict the movement of farmers agitating against the new agri laws were being “repositioned” by the Delhi Police.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting at the Delhi borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, demanding a rollback of the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
The protesting farmers have expressed the apprehension that these laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the "mercy" of big corporations.
However, the Government has maintained that the new Agriculture laws will bring better opportunities to farmers and introduce new technologies in agriculture.