Farmers start march towards Parliament from Ramlila Maidan; 3,500 cops deployed

New Delhi, Nov 30 Thousands of farmers from the nation over, who have been exploring nature at the Ramlila ground here since Thursday, started their walk to Parliament Street on Friday in the midst of substantial strategy organization, to press for their requests, including obligation help and gainful costs for their produce.

Over 3,500 police work force have conveyed on the course of the walk. As per a senior cop, extraordinary plans have been made in Central and New Delhi police districts.

Upwards of 850 police personnel, up to the rank of sub-inspectors, have been sent in the Central locale. They have been expanded by the presence of 12 police companies, including two of women, each containing 75-80 personnel, a police official said.

In New Delhi area, 346 police personnel, up to the rank of sub-inspectors, have been deployed and 600 personnel from other districts will also help them, the official said.

Nine police companies, alongside 71 officers, from the rank of reviewers up to extra DCPs, are also present.

Farmers from different parts of the nation, including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh joined at the Ramlila ground on Thursday.

Traffic was disturbed in many parts of the city on Thursday as the farmers walked to the Ramlila ground in the core of the city on four different routes, beginning from Anand Vihar, Nizamuddin and Bijwasan railway stations and Sabzi Mandi.

Banded under the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), which professes to be an umbrella assemblage of 207 associations of farmers and agricultural workers, many farmers arrived in the city on Thursday, on trains, buses and different methods of transport.

Kamla, a functionary of the All India Kisan Sabha's Delhi unit, said ranchers from close-by territories combined at Majnu Ka Tila on the edges of Delhi from where they walked in gatherings to Ramlila Maidan on Thursday.

Around 1,200 members from the National South Indian River Interlinking Agriculturalists Association reached the national capital in the early hours of Thursday conveying skulls of two of their partners who had committed suicide, their leader P Ayyakannu claimed.

The group from Tamil Nadu had undermined to march naked if they are not allowed to go to Parliament on Friday.They had last year staged protests at Jantar Mantar with the skulls of eight farmers who killed themselves owing to losses.

The AIKSCC has asserted that the two-day rally will be one of the biggest congregations of farmers in Delhi.

Five Gurdwaras in the Delhi district have extended their help to the farmers. Also students from different colleges turned out in vast numbers to loan support to the ranchers. The dissent likewise observed interest of various ladies farmers who went from different parts of the nation.

Volunteers, including specialists, attorneys, teachers and craftsmen, all turned out in expansive numbers to help the farmers. Around 600-700 volunteers of a solidarity group 'Country For Farmers' walked with the protesters from the four assembly points.

The AIKSCC was formed under the aegis of All India Kisan Sabha and other Left-affiliated farmers' bodies in June, 2017, following protests by farmers in states such as Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh for debt relief and remunerative prices.