Tribune news service
Chandigarh, November 29
Local administrations in Sonepat and Jhajjar have started to make arrangements for mobile toilets and medical facilities and have started distributing masks and disinfectants to protesting farmers. With entry points to Delhi through the Singhu and Bahadurgarh-Tikri borders sealed, there was a surge at the Haryana-Delhi border with farmers from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand joining the turmoil today.
Traffic on the NH-44 was paralyzed and several vehicles transporting perishable products, including milk, were stranded. Even as local farmers provided rations and set up medical facilities for protesting farmers, an angry CM Manohar Lal Khattar from Haryana warned that he would hold his Punjab counterpart Captain Amarinder Singh responsible if farmers gather at the state borders with Delhi was leading any aggravation of the Covid-19 situation.
Meanwhile, Congressional Leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda criticized Haryana’s CM for his comment that Haryana farmers were not part of the uproar against the new farm laws, warning of a “bigger movement” if farmers’ problems were not they were resolved soon.
