Farmers did not turn up at meeting convened by Haryana Govt

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Farmers did not turn up at meeting convened by Haryana Govt

Monday, 20 September 2021 | PNS | Chandigarh

The farmers’ leaders did not attend the meeting convened by Haryana Government’s high-powered committee on Sunday over clearing the blockade on national highway-44 on the Kundli-Singhu border.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha had on Saturday announced to boycott the meeting and said that they have not blocked any road. The farmers’ leaders had said that it is the Delhi police that installed the barricades on the highway to halt the farmers’ movement in November 2020.

Following the directions of Supreme Court, Haryana Government had last week constituted a state-level committee comprising Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Rajeev Arora as chairman and Director General of Police PK Agrawal; Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Navdeep Singh Virk; Secretary, Home-I Department, Dr Balkar Singh to hold talks with the farmers’ representatives to clear the blockade on national highway due to the ongoing protest for about ten months now.

ACS Home, Rajeev Arora while talking to the mediapersons on Sunday said that the farmers’ representatives did not turn up for the meeting but some business-related organizations met the committee and apprized the problems faced by them due to the road blockade.

He said that we will again make efforts to hold a meeting with the farmers to resolve this issue. On farmers’ allegations that Delhi police has barricaded the roads, Arora said that we invite farmers to discuss the issue in a meeting with us.

Citing the petition on the protests on national highway 44 and the Supreme Court’s order of August 23, the Sonipat District Administration had earlier asked the farmers to either shift to one side of the highway or move to an alternate site.

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