07 September,2021 05:50 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
The kisan mahapanchyat presented a memorandum of their demands to the Karnal Deputy Commissioner at the mini secretariat on Tuesday morning. Pics/ Pallav Paliwal
Farmer leaders who had returned to the site of mahapanchayat (congregation) after all their demands were turned down by the government authorities, have marched towards the Karnal secretariat for demonstration.
Thousands of farmers left the Anaj mandi to gherao the secretariat, also called the mini-secretariat.
The move came after political activist Yogendra Yadav and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait told media that their meeting with Karnal DC ended inconclusively and that the authorities did not agree to suspend or even set up an enquiry against the IAS officer who ordered lathicharge against the farmers protesting against the three farm laws on August 28.
Later, political actvist Yogendra Yadav informed in a tweet that Haryana police have detained several farmers' leaders, including himself and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait from Namaste Chowk.
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Earlier, an 11-member farmers' delegation from the kisan mahapanchyat presented a memorandum of their demands to the Karnal Deputy Commissioner at the mini secretariat on Tuesday morning.
In the memorandum, the farmers reiterated their demand for strict action against the IAS officer who ordered a lathicharge against the protestors on August 28.
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The delegation was led by political activist Yogendra Yadav, farmer protest leader Rakesh Tikait, Karnal-based Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Gurnaam Singh Chaduni, BKU president Balbir Singh Rajewal, BKU (Sidhupur) state president member Jagjit Singh Dallewal, Ajay Rana, Dr Darshan pal along with other farmer leaders.
Farmers have been protesting on the outskirts of the national capital against the three contentious farm laws passed by the Centre in the Parliament in September 2020. Post the Republic Day mayhem, in which the agitators had entered Delhi leading to law and order problem, the August 28 incident was the second such untoward incident where a protester lost his life.
(With agency inputs)
