After their march from Delhi Chalo to protest against the Center’s agricultural laws, failed due to heavy barricades by the Haryana police on Wednesday, Punjab farmers unions changed their strategy of taking only the roads into the national capital. They plan to enter Haryana via other routes on Thursday morning.
While activists from the Ekta-Ugrahan and Sidhupur factions of the Bharti Kisan Union have been camping on the Punjab-Haryana border in Khanauri and Moonak, respectively, in the Sangrur district since Wednesday night, other farmers’ unions changed their plans and decided to head to Delhi from other points of entry.
Members of the Kirti Kisan Union, BKU Kadian and Rajewal factions plan to meet at Mastuana Sahib in Sangrur and head to the Shambhu border at 11 am.
“The BKU members Ekta-Ugrahan and Sidhupur have already occupied the borders in Sangrur, so we have decided to march towards the Shambhu border in neighboring Patiala,” said Bhupinder Singh Longowal, a member of the state committee of the Kirti Kisan Union.
Gurmeet Singh Bhattiwal, the district head of BKU Dakaunda, said his cadres and other farmer groups will march to Haryana on the Samana-Chika route from Patiala district.
Gobinder Singh, the head of BKU Ugrahan’s Sangrur block, said that 80 trucks and 10 buses will head to the Khanauri border, where farmers will make a determined offer to enter Haryana en route to the national capital.
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