Khalistan flag/Nishan Sahib raised on Red fort, police clash with Sikh farmers

[pothead]

Good news everyone,

All NRI's who participated in the protest, get ready for cavity search aka, passport and Visa denial.
That will only be the beginning..

 

[Andhadhun]

Good news everyone,

All NRI's who participated in the protest, get ready for cavity search aka, passport and Visa denial.
That will only be the beginning..

Wait, it gets better.

PASSPORT of all rioting farmer leaders and key supports have been canceled indefinitely.

So no more foreign trips for any of them

Better still, there are plans to RECOVER cost of damage from them.

Meanwhile 40 villages near Singhu border warn protestors to empty the protest site in 24 hours

Also in UP,

https://twitter.com/x/status/1354754869354143752

Delhi Traffic Police gives out this alert,

 

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Indian vs indian

 

[N.Siddiqui]

A Sikh farmer attacked by the Indian police.

Sikh farmers were attacked by the police, much before the hosting of the Nishan Sahib at Delhi fort.


Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort



AFP | ReutersPublished January 26, 2021
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Farmers take part in a tractor rally as they continue to demonstrate against the central government's recent agricultural reforms in New Delhi on January 26, 2021. — AFP

A farmer holds a sword during a protest against farm laws introduced by the government, at the historic Red Fort in Delhi, India, January 26. — Reuters

Police officers scuffle with a demonstrator during a protest against farm laws introduced by the government, in New Delhi, India, January 26. — Reuters



Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms breached barricades on Tuesday to enter the historic Red Fort complex in the capital and hoist flags after clashing with police, who fired tear gas to scatter them.
Growers, angered by laws they say help large, private buyers at the expense of producers, have camped outside New Delhi for almost two months, posing one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he came to power in 2014.
The body of one protester draped in an Indian tricolour lay in a central Delhi street after the tractor he rode overturned in one of the clashes, said a witness, Vishu Arora.
“He died right there,” Arora added.


A Reuters witness saw at least five police and three protesters injured at the Red Fort, from whose ramparts Modi delivers an annual speech. Some of those who scaled its walls carried ceremonial swords, overwhelming police who were trying to prevent them from entering.

Protesters climb on a dome at the ramparts of the Red Fort during the protest in New Delhi on January 26. — AFP

The government ordered internet services in some parts of the capital to be blocked, according to mobile carrier Vodafone Idea, in an attempt to prevent further unrest.
Lost control
Tens of thousands of bearded and turbanned farmers, many bundled against the winter cold, began the day in a convoy of tractors festooned with Indian and union flags along the city's fringes.
But hundreds of protesters soon broke away from pre-approved routes, heading for the city centre where the government was holding an annual Republic Day parade of troops and military hardware on Tuesday morning.
“Modi will hear us now, he will have to hear us now,” said Sukhdev Singh, 55, a farmer from the northern state of Punjab, who was among hundreds of protesters, some on horseback, who broke away from one of the three protest routes.


From the city's north they headed towards the government buildings in the centre. They commandeered cranes and used ropes to tear down roadblocks, forcing constables in riot gear to give way, Reuters witnesses said.
A second group rode tractors to get to a key central traffic junction, also breaching barricades after similar clashes with police.
Hundreds also fought police outside the Delhi police headquarters.
In a statement, Delhi police accused those who diverged from the agreed routes of “violence and destruction”.
“They have caused great damage to public property and many police personnel have also been injured,” the statement said.
Protest organiser Samyukt Kisan Morcha said the groups deviating from set routes did not represent the majority of farmers.
“We also condemn and regret the undesirable and unacceptable events that have taken place today and dissociate ourselves from those indulging in such acts,” the group of farm unions said in a statement.
Amarinder Singh, chief minister of Punjab state where many of the protesters came from, called the clashes “shocking”.
“The violence by some elements is unacceptable,” he said in a tweet. “It'll negate goodwill generated by peacefully protesting farmers.”
Farmer pressure
Agriculture employs about half of India's population of 1.3 billion, and unrest among an estimated 150 million landowning farmers worries the government.

Indian policemen beat farmers driving a tractor after protesting farmers and policemen clash during India's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, Jan 26. — AP

Nine rounds of talks with farmers' unions have failed to end the protests, as farm leaders rejected the government's offer to delay the laws for 18 months, making a push for repeal instead.
The government says that the farmers have been manipulated by opposition parties which have largely backed the rural campaign.
“The farm organisations have a very strong hold,” said Ambar Kumar Ghosh, an analyst at New Delhi think tank the Observer Research Foundation.
“They have the resources to mobilise support, and to continue the protest for a long time. They have also been very successful in keeping the protest really focused.”
'National embarrassment'
All over the city, security forces fired tear gas and staged baton charges.
But the farmers also laid into police with branches and metal bars and hijacked buses that had been used to block their convoys.
The US embassy released a “security alert” warning American nationals to avoid trouble zones.
The government had opposed the rally saying it would be a “national embarrassment” on Republic Day. Police allowed the demonstration if farmers waited until after the military parade and kept to a route away from central Delhi.
But the security was breached while Modi and other dignitaries watched tanks and troops pass along the Rajpath boulevard while newly acquired Rafale fighter jets flew overhead.
Modi waved to crowds and was driven back to his residence barely 30 minutes before the fleets of tractors took over the centre.




Popular support
“We are going to show the government that we mean business,” said protester Nareesh Singh as he revved up his tractor and drove into a cloud of tear gas.
Farmers' leaders say they have enough supplies to keep their protest camps going for a year. The leaders said the police had provoked the farmers into violence.
In a statement, police replied that they had to act after the farmers broke the conditions for the rally.
“When you attack a peaceful protest, then difficulties for the government will surely increase,” union leader Kawalpreet Singh Pannu told AFP.
“This won't stop here. Our movement and message have only become stronger.”
He said a new protest would be held on February 1 outside parliament when the government announces its budget.
On one main road, people on rooftops threw petals on the tractor convoys.
Elsewhere people cheered and applauded as farmers went past waving Indian flags and blowing horns.
India showcases its military hardware with a parade every year on Republic Day, which marks the adoption of its constitution in 1950.
This year's ceremonies went ahead despite security concerns.
The parade was cut back because of the coronavirus pandemic, with the number of spectators reduced from 125,000 to 25,000.
Smaller farmer demonstrations were held in Mumbai and Bangalore and in the rural state of Haryana.

Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort

Security forces fire tear gas and stage baton charges, protesters lay into police with their own weapons.

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[Beast]

India media will come out with a poll and claim 99% of Indian are happy with modi rule and his decisive action on shaping India.

 

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Clashes break at out at key farmers' protest site in Indian capital
ReutersPublished January 29, 2021Updated about an hour ago
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People shout anti-farmers slogans and wave India's flags as police officers try to stop them, at a site of the protest against farm laws at Singhu border near New Delhi, India, January 29. — Reuters




“Concerned over police high-handedness, thousands of farmers, who were not part of the protest, have now come to bolster our movement,” Rakesh Tikait, president of one of the largest farmers unions, the Bharti Kisan Union, told Reuters on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government introduced the new agricultural laws in September, triggering a wave of protests and sit-ins on some of the major approaches to New Delhi.

Farm leaders say the laws are an attempt to erode a longstanding mechanism that ensures farmers a minimum support price for their rice and wheat.

The government says the reforms will open up new opportunities for farmers and it says it will not bow to the protesters’ demands.

Modi retains a solid majority in parliament although the protests are beginning to undermine some support for the government in the countryside.

The protest turned violent on Tuesday, when India celebrated its Republic Day with a military parade, when some protesters broke away from a procession of tractors to break through barricade and clash with police.

Clashes break at out at key farmers' protest site in Indian capital

Farmers’ leaders accuse police and politicians of instigating skirmishes at the northern site to turn sentiment against them.

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DAWN is reporting Sikh farmers protest in detail...

Surprises NO!!!
Dozens of articles by DAWN, Pakistan...

India's farmers back at protest camp after deep challenge to PM Modi

“The situation is normal now, the protesters have left the streets of the capital,″ says New Delhi police officer.

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In pictures: Indian farmers enter Delhi's Red Fort as protests break out across the country

Some protesters hoisted the Khalistan flag on a minaret of the historic Red Fort monument.

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How the Sikh diaspora is drumming up global support for farmers' protest in India

Farmers, mostly from the Sikh-dominated state of Punjab, have been camped on the borders of New Delhi since last month.

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India's winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi

For more than a week, farmers have marched towards Delhi on their tractors and trucks like an army.

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[N.Siddiqui]

India media will come out with a poll and claim 99% of Indian are happy with modi rule and his decisive action on shaping India.

Many political pundits have predicted Modi fascism supported by the RSS will break India. Manmohan Singh, has also predicted it.

The ideological breakup is already there, only a physical breakup remains to be seen.





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