Farmers arrived with hundreds of tractors and staged a sit-in protest at the Collectorate | News India

Bijnor, September 19 (HS) | Bharatiya Kisan Union Apolitical demonstrated its strength by taking out a huge tractor march to demand its demands and held a huge meeting at the Collectorate.

The tractor march reached the collectorate via Shakti Chowraha, Jaji Chowraha, Namaz Ground. During the tractor march, there was a traffic jam in the city due to which the common people had to face a lot of trouble. In view of the farmers' protest, the police had put up barricades from Numaish Ground to Vikas Bhawan, which the farmers broke and moved ahead. Addressing the gathering in the collectorate, the farmer leaders said that the terror of leopard has spread in the district but the district administration is unable to control it, while every day leopards are killing some person or the other.

Farmers demanded that the sugarcane payment be made by Bajaj Sugar Mill, and expressed their displeasure over not refunding the fees even after the government's order to waive the school fees of children during the Corona period and demanded the district administration to get it released soon. At the same time, farmer leaders accused the school managers of doing business in the name of education and said that course dress is being sold at high prices on a large scale in schools, due to which parents are becoming victims of loot. The district administration is a mute spectator while voices are raised against it every year. Farmers expressed anger over the breaking of roads in urban and rural areas under the Har Ghar Jal Yojana and demanded that they be built immediately. Apart from this, demands like not installing meters, making sugarcane payments on time, increasing the capacity of overloaded power houses, etc. were put before the administration, on which after talks, the protest was ended with a warning when the district administration assured immediate action on all demands. This huge protest was led by farmer leader Digambar Singh.

On this occasion, District President Nitin Sirohi, Ankit Nival, Shivam Chaudhary, Divisional General Secretary Gaurav Kumar, Gyan Singh, Harpal Singh, Vineet Maurya, Prashu, Kapil Kumar, Deepak, Seemant, Shubham, Pushpendra, Harshit, Bhupendra, Amit, Akash, Nishant, Rahul and other farmer leaders were present.