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Transport workers in India have called a strike in support of the ongoing peasant movement. The strike will be observed first in North India. Transport workers have threatened to strike across India if farmers’ demands are not met. The Indian media Hindustan Times reported this.
Indian farmers protesting against the agricultural policy of the Narendra Modi government have virtually surrounded Delhi. More farmers from Punjab and Haryana have already left to join the blockade. Delhi is practically isolated. In such a situation, three Indian government ministers met with a delegation of farmers on Tuesday. However, the talks yielded no results.
Farmers are demanding that the government repeal the new farm law first. And the law must be enacted with a minimum harvest price, so that those who buy crops from farmers privately are required to abide by this law. The government, however, did not indicate any compliance.
The farmers are still sitting in Delhi. Another highway leading to Delhi was closed on Wednesday. More farmers have arrived from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to intensify the protest, with many on the way. Farmers protest with trucks, tractors and ambulances on the Delhi border. They have two months of food with them. With the straw from their own fields. At night they are lying on the tractor with straw. Someone is cleaning on the road. Even in this extreme cold of Delhi.
On Wednesday, a large group of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh arrived and blocked major roads between Delhi and Noida. Noida police said that those traveling by cars, bicycles, scooters should not pass on the roads of the DND and Kalindi Kunj overpass. Because it has stopped. Two roads from Haryana to Delhi had already been closed. One of the main roads from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi is also partially closed. As a result, three roads leading to Delhi have been completely closed and one partially closed. And once a couple of roads are closed, most of the main roads to Delhi will be closed. Delhi will be blocked.
The All India Motor Transport Congress called on Wednesday a strike in support of the farmers’ movement. This organization represents about one million truck workers. They will observe the strike from December 6.
Kultaran Singh Atwal, president of the organization, said: “Starting on December 6, we will stop all activities in North India.” Truck traffic will be suspended in North India and Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have decided that if the government still does not meet the demands of farmers, we will implement a wheel stop program across India,” he said.
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