Noida: FIR Against Farmer Leader Sukhbir Singh & His Supporters For Holding Traffic While Gheraoing Dadri MLA

The Police Commissionerate further said that due to the traffic jam, many ambulances with patients got stuck for a long time, which was threatening to their lives.

शिरोमणि अकाली दल के अध्यक्ष सुखबीर सिंह बादल (फाइल फोटो)

New Delhi: An FIR has been registered at the Knowledge Park PS against a farmer leader Sukhbir Khalifa, his 28 supporters, & 200 unknown people, for violating Section 144 CrPC & holding a traffic jam at NOIDA Zero Point, a Police Commissionerate from Gautam Buddh Nagar told ANI.

The Police Commissionerate further said that due to the traffic jam, many ambulances with patients got stuck for a long time, which was threatening to their lives.

Senior officials & the police had to intervene, they reached on time to open up the route. According to a TOI report, traffic was hit on Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, for over an hour and a half as protesting farmers gheraoed from where Dadri MLA Tejpal Singh Nagar was headed for Jewar on Tuesday where UP CM Yogi Adithyanath was reviewing arrangements for the Noida airport's launch.

Around 2:30 in the afternoon the Bharatiya Kisan Sangathan farmers led by Sukhbir Khalifa had gathered & stopped Nagar near zero point to question him and ask what he had done in the past 5 years and also demand 40% quota for youngsters in local companies, the policemen who were accompanying the MLA asked them to speak to him at the Noida Zero Point itself but in the meanwhile, the traffic kept growing according to the TOI report. 

Frustrated by the traffic which grew longer, many ambulances were also caught in it, a woman who was heading to Tappal where her mother had passed away, got out of her vehicle to shout at the protesters, reported TOI.

After heated arguments, the farmers decide to leave around 4 pm. After a few minutes, traffic resumed on the expressway TOI reported. 

The farmers have said that they will continue with the protest until all their demands are met, including making sure there is MSP. On November 19, PM Narendra Modi announced that the three agricultural laws – Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 - which was the reason the protest began almost a year ago will be withdrawn, but the farmers' said that unless it is withdrawn during the Winter Parliament session and they agree with all of their demands they will not stop protesting. 

According to ABP News Sources, the Union Cabinet has approved draft legislation to repeal the Farm laws presented today in the cabinet meeting today which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.