[Marxistindia] Kisan Protest - Withdraw this Inhuman Blockade

[news from the cpi(m)]

February 3, 2021
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Withdraw this Inhuman Blockade of Kisan Protests by Delhi Police
 
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the measures taken by the
Delhi police to prevent the supply of water, food and other essential
commodities sent by people of nearby states to reach the farmers who are in
the midst of a heroic unprecedented protest demanding the repeal of the
Agri-Laws.  
 
What is worse is that Delhi government, which is supplying water to the
kisans, has been stopped from delivering the water tankers of the Delhi Jal
Board.  This is a corporation directly under the Delhi government.  Further,
the facilities for  toilets and other sanitary hygiene, so important in the
times of the Covid pandemic, that are provided by the Delhi government at
the Guru Teg Bahadur Smarak have been forcibly vacated by the Delhi police.
Preventing the elected government of  Delhi in discharging its duties on its
own property is illegal.  
 
While obdurately refusing to accept the genuine demands of the protesting
farmers, Delhi police, under the Central government's Union Home Ministry,
is taking such inhuman measures attempting to starve the kisans and thus
disrupt and disperse the protests.  The kisan agitation has declared that
such gross inhuman behavior by the Central government cannot deter the
protestors.  Their determination and resolve has heightened with more and
more kisans pouring in to strengthen the struggle.  
 
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) demands that these draconian anti-human
measures of the Central government be withdrawn immediately. The supply of
water, food, sanitation facilities and other essential items cannot be
prevented by the Delhi police.  The Central government must immediately
direct the Delhi police to withdraw these measures and lift the inhuman
blockade.  
 
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