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Ahead of talks with govt, farmers take out tractor march against farm laws

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Ahead of talks with the government, thousands of farmers on Thursday took out tractor-march from protest sites of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders and Haryana”s Rewasan against the three agriculture laws amid heavy police deployment.

According to the protesting farm unions, this is just a “rehearsal” for their proposed January 26 tractor parade that will be moved into the national capital from different parts of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

Bharati Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) chief Joginder Singh Ugrahan said that farmers participated in the march with over 3,500 tractors and trolleys.

Ugrahan, whose union is one of the largest farmer organisations in Punjab, said that they will not accept anything less than the repeal of the three farm laws. The eighth round of talks between protesting unions and the central government is scheduled to be held on Friday.

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