HISAR: Kisan Sabha activists in Hisar on Tuesday announced a protest at the Chaudharywas toll plaza at 11am on Saturday.
The announcement came after a meeting of local functionaries of Kisan Sabha at the same venue. It has been over 12 days since farm unions in Haryana ceased the functioning of toll collecton points in the state. Krishan Gavar, president of Balsamand tehsil of Kisan Sabha, said the decision for holding the protest on Saturday was unanimous and a campaign would be launched in surrounding villages from January 6 for gathering support for the protest.
Meanwhile, a chain hunger strike by activists to demand the withdrawal of the three contentious agriculture laws which has led to protests across the country, entered its sixth at Ramayana toll plaza in HIsar.
CITU state general secretary Sukhbir Singh Prabhat also spoke at Chaudharywas on Saturday. He said it seemed the government’s intentions towards the main demands of farmers were still not right. “There is a democratically elected government in our country, but today it has come under pressure from big corporate houses and this is hurting democracy,” he said.