Highlights : Pawar should take lead in resolving farm stir, says Athawale

Union minister Ramdas Athawale said on Sunday that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar should take initiative in resolving the ongoing farmers' agitation. "The Supreme Court has already put a stay on the implementation of the three farm laws. But the farmers are continuingwith their protest. Their agitation is being used for politics," Athawale added.

Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, citing a news report, slammed UP government for their efforts to stop protesting farmers going to Delhi.

Read the news report here - UP govt orders no diesel for tractors as farmers gear up for Jan 26 rally

Congress party's student wing National Students' Union of India (NSUI) held a tractor rally in Amritsar to support the protesting farmers.

Following their earlier announcement, Punjab AAP MLAs have decided to leave for Delhi to participate in the farmers' tractor rally on Republic day from their respective constituencies citing heavy traffic on main roads across Punjab, reports ANI.

Maharashtra farmers, marching from Nashik in protest of the farm laws, have camped at Azad Maidan in Mumbai after reaching there, reports ANI.

All MLAs of Aam Aadmi Party will move towards Delhi on Jan 25 on tractors from Shambu at Punjab-Haryana border to support the tractor parade of farmers, says party's state unit

More batches of farmers from Punjab on Sunday set out for Delhi to participate in the proposed tractor parade on January 26.

Farmer unions protesting the Centre's three farm laws had said they would go ahead with their tractor parade in Delhi on Republic Day.

The tractor rally will enter Delhi from Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur borders and return to its originating points. From Singhu, it will pass through Kanjhawala, Bawana, Auchandi border, KMP Expressway and then return to Singhu. From Tikri border, it will go to Nagloi and pass through Najafgarh and Western Peripheral Expressway. From Ghazipur border, the rally will go to 56-foot road and return to its originating point passing through Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal Expressway: Dependra Pathak, Special CP, Intelligence, Delhi Police

For the security arrangements of the tractor rally, we will be providing required police deployment realising that there are elements of threat to create disturbance in the rally: Dependra Pathak, Special CP, Intelligence, Delhi Police.

Farmers' proposed tractor rally on Tuesday will begin amid tight security after Republic Day celebrations conclude: Delhi Police.

The Republic Day tractor parade by agitating farmers will feature a number of tableaux from across states depicting village life, the protest against the Centre's contentious farm laws, and hailing their courage, according to organisers.

A farmer leader told news agency PTI that directions were issued to all organisations participating in the protest to prepare tableaux for the parade.

I have been saying for a while. There are miscreant elements, people carrying Khalistani flags. But what can farmer leaders do to verify identities in such numbers of people. ₹1cr-80 lakhs is given to such elements for waving flags and I am a target anyway: Congress MP Ravneet Bittu.

We had gone to participate in a meeting called by farmer leaders. Upon reaching we were ambushed, as if by guerilla warriors who were armed with sticks and other weapons. We are not going to take any action now as the farmers' movements are still going on: Congress MP Ravneet Bittu.

The rally will begin after the end of the Republic Day parade ends. There is no clarity on when it would end. About 15,000 tractors are there at the three border points, as per police estimates. More could come in, says Delhi Police.

Deependra Pathak, special CP (intelligence), said that an in-principle permission has been granted for tractor rally from three points -- Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur.

Total routes will be about 170 kms, of which over 100 kms will fall in Delhi.

Today there was a short meeting with officers of Delhi Police. We have got formal permission from Police for the tractor rally. As I told earlier, 'Kisan Gantantra Parade' will be held on January 26 in a peaceful manner: Yogendra Yadav, Swaraj India.

Thousands tractors-trolleys leave for Delhi, vehicles choke NH 44

Hindustan Times' sister publication Livehindustan reported that Uttar Pradesh government has asked supply officers in all the districts to not give diesel to protesting farmers.

All India Congress Committee General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government of transferring the wealth of the country to corporates and taking away the rights of farmers.

Farmers from Igatpuri Nashik district walk along the Mumbai-Nashik highway at Khardi to join the farmers protest in Mumbai.

Nashik farmers affiliated to All India Kisan Sabha and various other farmer organisations started marching towards Mumbai on Sunday. They will gather at Mumbai and then march towards Delhi so as to support the ongoing agiatation on Republic Day.

The tractor parades will be taken out only after 12 pm, after the Republic Day parade on Delhi's Rajpath concludes, according to the protesting farmer unions. Read more about the proposed rally

Around 25,000 tractors from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand will participate in the 'kisan parade' in the national capital on January 26, said Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait.