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HM 27 NOVEMBER Page 7.Qxd THE HIMALAYAN MAIL JAMMU FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2020 NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL 7 Farmers bring down barriers, make multiple entries into Haryana SANGRUR/CHANDI- water cannons to stop the farm- thousands of peasants removed Police made from Delhi. There was heavy deployment of Farmers have brought ration, GARH/AMBALA, NOVEM- ers near Tyora village but the police barricades and heavy announcements on loudspeak- Leaders of All India Kisan Haryana police on the borders vegetables, wood and other es- BER 26 : Tension spiralled at angry farmers broke open the concrete boulders blocking their ers to ask the farmers assembled Sabha, who have been entrusted with Punjab, officials said. sentials for their march. In view the Shambhu interstate border barricades and continued their way to Delhi. on the Punjab side of the border with the responsibility of ensur- The Haryana Police in ade- of cold weather conditions, they on Thursday as police used water march towards Delhi on Thurs- The injured were being shifted to disperse. As smoke from the ing a smooth movement of quate strength has also been de- have stocked quilts, blankets cannons and teargas to disperse day. to hospital in an ambulance. The teargas clouded the air and uni- farmers from the border, say ployed along the state's borders and covered their trolleys with hundreds of farmers from Pun- Similarly at the Tukar border police have parked trucks in the formed security personnel that there are almost 50,000 with Delhi, they said. tarpaulin. Haryana Bhartiya jab who broke barricades, of Pehowa in Kurukshetra the middle of the highway in an- milled around, people could be farmers at the spot. Farmer bodies said they will Kisan Union (BKU) chief Gur- throwing some into the river, Punjab farmers broke open the other bid to stop farmers' 'Delhi seen standing on top of trucks. Bracing overnight rains and hold a dharna wherever stopped nam Singh Charuni had said on determined to enter the state as barricades, throwing some into Chalo' march. Television visuals also showed chilly winds, thousands of from moving towards the na- Wednesday that “even if police part of their ‘Delhi Chalo' march the Markanda river, to enter As farmers and police faced some bricks lying on the road. protesting farmers on Thursday tional capital. use lathis and force, nothing can against the Centre's farm laws. Haryana. The police also used off at a bridge with the Ghaggar Some farmers tried to cross assembled at various places The BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) has stop farmers". After crossing Ambala, the water cannons to disperse the river flowing below, tractors and the barricades and remove them along the Haryana borders in claimed that over two lakh farm- Videography, including using Punjab farmers reached Kuruk- farmers but to no avail. trucks were lined up and people and some chucked them into the Punjab amid mounting tension. ers associated with it will enter drone cameras, is being done at shetra where the administration A few protesters and cops could be seen waving black flags Ghaggar river. The Shambhu Haryana had completely Haryana through Khanauri and the state borders with Punjab had put up barricades and used were injured in the scuffle as and shouting slogans. border point is about 200 km sealed its borders with Punjab. Dabwali. and other sensitive points. Amarinder slams Khattar govt for India has highest bribery rate in stopping farmers marching towards Delhi Asia: Transparency International the BJP leadership to direct NEW DELHI, NO- tion, the report said. someone who has. port said. their state governments not VEMBER 26: India has the “Both national and state “About 63 per cent of sur- The report concluded by to indulge in such strong- highest bribery rate in Asia governments need to veyed people think the gov- noting that daily experience arm tactics against the farm- and the most number of peo- streamline administrative ernment is doing well in with corruption and bribery ers. ple who use personal con- processes for public services, tackling corruption while 73 remains alarmingly high, “Let the farmers be heard nections to access public ser- implement preventative per cent said their anti-cor- with nearly one in five citi- by the Central Government, vices, according to a new measures to combat bribery ruption agency is doing well zens paying a bribe to access let their concerns be ad- report by corruption watch- and nepotism, and invest in in the fight against corrup- key government services, dressed,” he said, calling for dog Transparency Interna- user-friendly online plat- tion,” it said. such as health care or educa- peaceful resolution of the tional. forms to deliver essential Based on fieldwork con- tion, and one in seven being farmers’ concerns in the na- The Global Corruption public services quickly and ducted in 17 countries, the offered a bribe to vote one tional interest. Barometer (GCB), Asia, effectively,” the report said. GCB surveyed nearly 20,000 way or another at elections. On Delhi Chief Minister’s found that nearly 50 per cent Although reporting cases citizens in total. “In several countries, in- Arvind Kejriwal’s condem- of those who paid bribes of corruption was critical to The report said the results cluding India, Malaysia, nation of the use of force were asked to, while 32 per curbing the spread, a major- showed that nearly three out Thailand, Sri Lanka and In- against farmers in Haryana, cent of those who used per- ity of citizens in India (63 per of four people think corrup- donesia, sexual extortion Captain Amarinder raised sonal connections said they cent) think that if they re- tion is a big problem in their rates are also high and more doubts over the AAP leader’s would not receive the service ported corruption, they country and the survey also must be done to prevent sex- sincerity towards the farm- otherwise. would suffer retaliation, it found that nearly one in five tortion and address specific- CHANDIGARH, NO- Delhi? The tyrannical use of a group of farmers from Pun- ers’ cause, asking why the The report is based upon said. people who accessed public gendered forms of corrup- VEMBER 26: Strongly brute force against peacefully jab who allegedly tried to Delhi government had failed the survey which was con- In several countries, in- services, such as health care tion,” it said. condemning Haryana’s protesting farmers is totally jump police barricades to en- to bring its own laws in the ducted between June 17 and cluding India, Malaysia, and education, paid a bribe The report further said forcible attempts to stop undemocratic & unconstitu- ter Haryana as part of their state Assembly to counter July 17 this year in India with Thailand, Sri Lanka and In- in the preceding year. that to provide victims of cor- farmers from marching to tional,” he said, asserting ‘Delhi Chalo’ march. the dangers of the central a sample size of 2,000. donesia, sexual extortion This equates to approxi- ruption with channels for re- Delhi in protest against the that “the hands that feed the There had been no vio- farm laws. “With the highest bribery rates are also high and more mately 836 million citizens dress, governments must en- Farm Laws, Punjab Chief nation deserve to be held, not lence or law and order prob- “Kejriwal is just playing to rate (39 per cent) in the re- must be done to prevent sex- in the 17 countries surveyed, sure that bribery was Minister Captain Amarinder pushed aside”. lem in Punjab, he observed, the gallery, the fact is that he gion, India also has the high- tortion and address specific- it said. criminalised and actively in- Singh warned the BJP-led Terming it a “sad irony” terming the Haryana gov- neither cares for the farmers est rate of people using per- gendered forms of corrup- After India, Cambodia has vestigated and prosecuted. government against pushing that on Constitution Day, the ernment’s actions as nor is interested in protect- sonal connections to access tion, the report said. the second-highest bribery “Citizens must have access them to the brink. constitutional right of farm- provocative. ing them,” said the Punjab public services (46 per Sextortion is extorting rate at 37 per cent, followed to safe and confidential re- Urging the Manohar Lal ers to protest was being sup- “For nearly two months Chief Minister, urging his cent),” the report said. money or sexual favours by Indonesia (30 per cent) porting mechanisms and Khattar government to allow pressed, the Chief Minister farmers have been protesting Delhi counterpart to stand Bribery in public services from someone by threaten- while the Maldives and governments must do more the agitated farmers to pass flayed the use of brute force peacefully in Punjab without firmly with the farmers in- continues to plague India. ing to reveal evidence of their Japan maintain the lowest to ease citizens’ fear of retali- through the national high- by the Haryana police, which any problem. Why is stead of indulging in double Slow and complicated bu- sexual activity through overall bribery rate (2 per ation in reporting corrup- way to take their voice to had used water cannons and Haryana govt provoking standards, if he really cared reaucratic process, unneces- means like morphed images. cent), followed by South Ko- tion. Despite these chal- Delhi peacefully, Captain tear gas in a bid to stop the them by resorting to force? about them. sary red tape and unclear In India, 89 per cent think rea (10 per cent) and Nepal lenges, citizens are largely Amarinder questioned the Punjab farmers from march- Don’t the farmers have the Farmers are marching to- regulatory frameworks force government corruption is a (12 per cent).
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