R-Day Tractor Parade: Farmers To Display Tableaus Of Different States

New Delhi: Lakhs of tractors are expected to join the Tractor Parade on Delhi’s Outer Ring Road on January 26. What is more, the protesting farmers plan to display tableaux of different states during their R-Day tractor parade.

“If all goes well, we will display tableaux of all states during the tractor parade,” Chaudhary Joginder Ghasi Ram Nain, a Bhartiya Kisan Union leader from Haryana, told The Indian Express (TIE).

The farmer groups of Haryana Thursday held a meeting at Tikri border where they elected farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni as president of Haryana Sayunkt Kisan Morcha. Leaders of a dozen farm outfits from Haryana participated in the meeting, TIE reported.

“We have made it clear that the farmers will undertake a tractor parade on the Outer Ring Road of Delhi on January 26. We have asked the administration to give permission for the same and also make arrangements by managing the traffic and getting vacated the road for the tractor parade. We have assured the officers that we don’t have any plan to interrupt the official Republic Day parade,” Chaduni was quoted as saying.

On the government’s proposal to put the three controversial farm laws on hold, Chaduni said, “I feel there may be politics from their side. They just want to avoid the issue for the time being.” He indicated that the proposal might be aimed to prevent the tractor parade on January 26, the report added.