New Delhi: In the midst of heavy deployment at the Singhu border region, two IPS officers, including a Deputy Commissioner of Police(DCP) and Additional DCP who directed the force at the Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana) where the farmers’ are protesting against the Centre’s three agricultural laws, have tested positive for COVID-19.
Both are in home isolation currently, said Delhi Police sources on Friday.
The two officers were directing the Delhi Police teams at the Singhu border and were interacting with the farmers.
A large number of farmers have been protesting for as long as 16 days at this Delhi-Haryana border region.
The farmers are protesting against the three agricultural laws passed during the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Regardless of five rounds of discussions, the deadlock proceeds. The farmer leaders sitting say their protest will go on until the Centre withdraws all the three farm laws.
Farmer leaders have additionally declared the closure of the Delhi-Agra and Jaipur-Delhi Expressways by Saturday.
With no ease off in the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s new agricultural laws, the Delhi Police has escalated its security arrangements and recommended alternative directions to commuters entering or leaving the city. As a part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, farmers have been organizing protests at four busy border regions of the national capital – Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Noida – to push their demands for withdrawing the agri-marketing laws.
Recently, farmer leaders had said that they would intensify their agitation by obstructing railways to put stress on the government for the repeal of three agricultural laws subsequent to declining the Centre’s proposals to make amendments on Wednesday. Six rounds of discussions have occurred between the farmer leaders and the Centre concerning the laws however no progress has been made on the front.
The three agricultural laws enacted in September have been projected by the government as significant reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and permit farmers to sell anywhere in the nation.
Nonetheless, the agitating farmers have communicated apprehension that the new laws would make way for removing the safety cushion of Minimum Support Price and do away with the mandis, leaving them helpless before large corporates. The Centre has repeatedly said that these mechanisms will stay.
