Agri laws: More Punjab farmers head towards protest sites near Delhi
They started their journey regardless of fog and biting chilly wave circumstances in lots of elements of Punjab on Saturday.
Tractor trollies, automobiles and different autos carrying farmers, together with aged and girls, have been seen on the Amritsar-Delhi nationwide freeway, continuing towards the borders with the nationwide capital.
It appeared the farmers have been ready for a protracted haul as they carried their ration and different necessities of their trollies.
“We will rest only when the Modi government repeals the farm laws,” mentioned an aged farmer headed from Amritsar to the protest website near Singhu border.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), one in all Punjab’s largest farmer organisations protesting in opposition to the latest legal guidelines, claimed that hundreds of farmers will march from the Khanauri and Dabwali borders towards protest sites near the nationwide capital.
The outfit’s General Secretary Sukhdev Singh mentioned that many ladies are additionally a part of the recent batches of farmers.
On Friday too, a number of batches of farmers underneath the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) headed for the protest sites from Amritsar and different locations.
Meanwhile, for a second day on Saturday toll assortment was halted at a number of freeway factors in Haryana — together with in Karnal, Sirsa, Rohtak and Jhajjar districts — by the farmers protesting in opposition to the brand new agriculture-related legal guidelines.
Responding to a name given by the Bharatiya Kisan Union, farmers had on Friday halted toll assortment on most highways in Haryana.
Officials mentioned toll assortment remained halted at a number of toll factors on Saturday too.
A couple of days in the past, the BKU had introduced that toll cubicles in Haryana wouldn’t be allowed to gather prices between December 25 and 27.
However, operations have been regular at varied toll plazas in Gurugram and Palwal districts.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and different elements of the nation have been protesting for the previous practically a month near varied border factors of the nationwide capital, demanding the repeal of the farm legal guidelines, which the ruling celebration has claimed are for farmers’ profit.
