NEW DELHI: Farmers from more than 30 agricultural organizations from Punjab and Haryana arrived at the sealed border points and held protests against the new agricultural laws, started langar and camped on the site. The farmers had called a “Chalo Dilli” march, declaring that they would reach the capital on Thursday by five roads.
Here are the main developments:
Here are the main developments:
- Farmers in large numbers arrived at the Punjab and Haryana interstate borders by tractor cars on Wednesday to march towards Delhi starting Thursday, even as Haryana police blocked major entry points between the two states to prevent farmers from entering. to its territory.
- On Wednesday, Delhi police rejected all requests from farmers’ organizations to organize protests in the capital. Legal action will be taken against those who violate the guidelines of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority.
- The Delhi Metro will be cut off from NCR cities until 2pm Thursday, as services will stop 2-3 stations from the borders due to the planned demonstration by farmers.
- The Haryana government sealed the Doomwali-Dabwali border along with the Khanouri-Jind, Sardulgarh, Boha-Ratia, Moonak, Malout and Kalianwali border points. At most of the entry points to Haryana, a large number of huge rocks were placed on the roads in addition to the barricades.
- The Haryana government detained more than 70 peasant leaders to quell the protests, on Wednesday hundreds of peasants took to the streets to mobilize more people for the march and help their counterparts trapped in the sealed Punjab-Haryana borders.
- Following the arrest of peasant leaders prior to ‘Delhi Chalo’, a large number of farmers secretly left for Delhi on motorcycles and other vehicles. While the Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa district administrations have enforced Section 144 in their districts, the borders with Punjab have been sealed.
- BKU Ekta-Ugrahan, which is protesting on its own, said that agricultural activists, including women, are ready to move on 4,000 covered trams and 1,600 buses.
- Agricultural activists are clear that they will not engage in any direct confrontation with the police, but will sit and protest wherever they are detained. However, they said this may lead to the blocking of national roads until farmers are allowed to move into Delhi.
- In Haryana, farmers from the northern districts of the state broke through two police barricades in Ambala and Kurukshetra on National Highway (NH) 44 (GT Road).
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