Chennai: Union leaders said thousands of farmers will take out the tractor march from all protest sites—Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur (Haryana-Rajasthan border), the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) on 7 January.
Yadav said the decision to defer the march was taken over a forecast of bad weather conditions on Wednesday.
The national capital has been receiving intermittent rains for the past three days. The unions said the agitation against the three agriculture laws will be intensified in the coming days.
Talking about their other proposed tractor march to Delhi, which is scheduled on 26 January, farmer leader Joginder Nain said,
“We will send 10 tractor-trollies from every village in Haryana. We request people to come, at least one from a house. And a total of 11 women from a village.”
The Haryana Police had on Sunday fired teargas canisters towards a group of farmers at Masani barrage in Rewari district to thwart their march towards Delhi. The farmers first broke police barricades put up near Bhudla Sangwari village and then started moving towards Delhi in the evening.
“Two groups of protestors came in Rewari district, one on 31 December, the other on 3 January. Police stopped us five kilometres before Dharuhera on 3 January. They hurled multiple tear gas shells on us there,” Ranjit Singh Raju, a farmer leader from Rajasthan, said.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country have been camping at several Delhi border points since November 28, demanding repeal of farm laws, a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues.