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Police on Tuesday arrested over 160 protesting farmers, including the president of Bharatiya Kisan Parishad Sukhbir Yadav ‘Khalifa’, who were holding a sit-in at the Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida after their march to Delhi on land compensation and other demands was stopped a day earlier.
Later in the day, in a move aimed at resolving the issues of the agitating farmers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed that a five-member committee be set up. The committee will submit its report and recommendations to the government within a month.
The protesters, who had gathered in Gautam Buddh Nagar from different parts of Uttar Pradesh on Monday on the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), had threatened to resume their march to the Capital if their demands were not met within a week. It claimed the police arrested “hundreds of farmers, including over 100 women” and forcibly evicted them.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shiv Hari Meena said over 160 protesters were arrested around 1.30 pm under Section 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. The provision allows police to carry out arrests to prevent the commission of a cognisable offence.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) convened an “emergency” panchayat over the matter. BKU leader Rakesh Tikait warned that the protest “would turn into a nationwide agitation of farmers”. He said the Gautam Buddh Nagar protest has been put off till December 9 to give the government time to resolve this dispute between farmers in that district and the authorities, which had been continuously delaying the process of payment of full compensation as envisaged by the Land Acquisition Act, 2013.
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