Police gear up to stop Manesar farmers’ protest march to PM house in Delhi
Hindustan TimesLocal police on Monday prepared to stop a procession planned by a group of 500 to 600 farmers in Manesar, who have announced that they will carry out a protest march culminating at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence in Delhi on Tuesday. We have decided to march till the Prime Minister’s house and stage a protest there in support of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha,” he said. We apprised them about the acquisition of 1810 acres of at least 1200 farmers in IMT Manesar for development of Phase-II of the industrial area at a nominal rate of ₹55 lakh per acre by the Haryana government for which we are staging protests continuously for two years,” Yadav said. Manesar deputy commissioner of police, Deepak Kumar Jewaria, said that no permission had been taken to organise any protest march and in the current scenario permission would not be granted for any such protest.