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This is an archive article published on August 10, 2015
Tractor rally reaches city
The tractors carrying the farmers reached Jantar Mantar in the evening, where a rally is scheduled on Monday that will bring an end to the 10-day ‘tractor march’.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh arrived in the capital on Sunday in 150 tractors as part of the ‘Jai Kisan Andolan’.
The rally was launched by the Swaraj Abhiyan — a group formed by expelled AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and Anand Kumar — on August 1 in Thikriwal village in Punjab’s Barnala district. The rally has covered up to 5,000 villages in Haryana. On Sunday, the farmers set off from Nuh in Haryana, entering the capital at Kapashera on the Delhi-Gurgaon border.
But Delhi Police initially did not allow the farmers to enter the capital. The police said tractors were not allowed on the roads of the capital, said Anupam Singh, spokesperson, Swaraj Abhiyan.
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“We had sought permission from the police on July 8. Until Sunday, we had no information that tractors are not allowed in the city,” Singh said, adding that the route for the march had been suggested by the police.
The tractors carrying the farmers reached Jantar Mantar in the evening, where a rally is scheduled on Monday that will bring an end to the 10-day ‘tractor march’.
On being denied entry into Delhi, Yadav tweeted: “& now starts the Tamasha by government! Police not letting our march move inside Delhi. Even though we have had the permission since July 8.”
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