Farmers’ protest to continue at Ghazipur border, says BKU
The Hindu
‘Tent removed to dispel the notion that farmers are blocking the road’
After the Supreme Court’s observation on indefinite blockage of roads during the ongoing farmers’ agitation against three contentious farm laws, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) removed a tent from the service lane that connects Delhi to Uttar Pradesh.
BKU national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait reiterated that they never blocked the road and it was the Delhi Police that had been preventing them from moving inside Delhi by putting a seven-layered barricade.
“We have been waiting at the border for 11 months. It seems the SC feels that we have been blocking the road so we have cleared this road. Delhi Police should allow us to move into Delhi,” Mr Tikait told reporters.
The fear of being caught for traffic rule violation has indeed compelled many two-wheeler riders to wear helmets. But one cursory look at riders at any traffic junction in Bengaluru shows that more than half the riders have on their heads non-standard helmets, designed solely to evade the eye of law, with little concern for the safety of their own heads.