Nails On Roads, No Internet; “Attacks” By Government

New Delhi: 02 Feb 21 Multiple barricades and barbed wire fences have been put up at the protest sites near Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh as farmers continue their sit-in against the centre’s three contentious agricultural laws. Digging of trenches and nails on roads, and temporary internet suspension are part of “attacks” being organised by the government, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer groups, has said. Security has been stepped at the three protest epicentres  – Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri – nearly a week after the city saw unprecedented violence as farmers took out a massive tractor rally on Republic Day.  “India was saddened by insult to tricolour on Republic Day,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his monthly radio address