Wrestlers’ Protest: Amid Tight Security, Women Farmers ‘Break’ Blockade at Tikri to March to Jantar Mantar
As the farmers’ organisations plan to join wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, a few women affiliated with the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) reportedly broke barricading at Tikri to continue their march.
Security measures have been in place at Jantar Mantar and on Delhi's borders in the wake of two farmers' organisations’ planned visits on Sunday and Monday.
Several senior Samyukta Kisan Morcha leaders from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh, with hundreds of farmers, were on their way to visit the protest site at Jantar Mantar on Sunday and extend the fullest support to the wrestler.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Saturday had announced that it will hold nationwide protests in support of some wrestlers protesting against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
A senior Delhi Police official had said stringent security measures will be put in place near Jantar Mantar for the delegation's visit.
Another official said checking in the bordering areas will be beefed up and barricades put in place.
On Sunday, several senior Samyukta Kisan Morcha leaders from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh, with hundreds of farmers, were on their way to visit the protest site at Jantar Mantar and extend the fullest support to the wrestlers, it said in a statement.
The outfit also demanded the immediate arrest of Singh.
The announcement regarding Sunday's visit came a day after the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political), a breakaway group of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha that spearheaded the year-long agitation against the now-repealed farm laws, said a large number of farmers would gather at Jantar Mantar on Monday (May 8) in support of the wrestlers.
Several wrestlers have been protesting at the Jantar Mantar since April 23, demanding that the government make public the findings of an oversight panel that investigated the sexual harassment charges against Singh. On April 28, the Delhi Police registered two FIRs in connection with the allegations.
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