Farmers participated in peaceful protests in various places in Ambala, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar, while chanting slogans against the central government, demanding the immediate withdrawal of three agricultural bills recently passed in Parliament and the guarantee of purchases on the minimum support price (MSP).
Due to the protest organized by Punjab farmers on the Punjab-Haryana interstate border at the Shambu barrier, the movement on National Highway (NH) 44 (GT Road) continued to be affected and the Haryana Police diverted traffic from the Delhi side, in Pipli and Shahabad to Panchkula via the cities of Barara and Shahzadpur in the Ambala district. No movement of vehicles towards Amritsar and Chandigarh was observed after Shahabad, as the police were diverting traffic.
The movement of an Indian army convoy towards Punjab on GT Road was obstructed due to the protest of Punjab farmers on the Shambhu border for about 30 minutes. However, due to the intervention of the Haryana police officers, the obstruction of the army convoy was cleared and it continued its journey to Punjab on the GT Road but on the wrong side. Some protesters on the Punjab side, who were confronting a group of Gypsies from the army of color, reportedly raised Khalistan Zindabad slogans near the Shambhu border, while chanting against the central government. However, none of the concerned officials spoke officially about this incident.
Ambala Range Police Inspector General (IGP) Y Puran Kumar said: “Protests organized by farmers remained peaceful in Ambala range and we only had to divert traffic on NH 44 and 152 due to protests organized by Punjab farmers on the roads of Patiala and Mohali Areas. Otherwise, the situation has remained completely peaceful. We have made extensive security arrangements and the force was designated in all important places. ”
In the Ambala and Kurukshetra markets area, bandh’s call received a mixed response, as some shops were closed while some merchants were opening their businesses and maintaining that they had nothing to do with the agricultural protests.
However, in Yamunanagar, there was no response to the so-called bandh in the market areas that remained open in the cities of Jagadhri-Yamunanagar.
In Ambala, farmers held a protest march in the cities of Ambala Cantt, Barara, Saha, and Mullana as they raised anti-government slogans and asked merchants to observe a shutdown until 4 p.m. and blocked NH 7 in front of the Naraingarh sugar mill in Banondi. village in Shahzadpur area.
In Kurukshetra, farmers blocked NH 444-A in front of Radha Soami Satsang Bhawan in Dinarpur village in Shahabad area, and burned effigies and billboards of BJP-JJP leaders near Dau Majra village and sat in a protest at the grain market in Pehowa. and marched in other areas of the district. Congress Ladwa MLA Mewa Singh also joined the farmers in their protest in their gathering areas.
In Yamunanagar, farmers associated with BKU (Charuni) sat in a protest on the Ambala-Saharanpur railway in Sudhal-Mehrampur villages and the BKU (Tikait) group protested at Triveni Chowk on the Ladwa-Yamunanagar road in the city de Radaur and the Congress of Radaur MLA Bishan Lal Saini also joined them. In Radaur, effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of Haryana (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar and MP CM Dushyant Chautala of Haryana were also burned.
BKU Haryana President Gurnam Singh Charuni was on the move and visited various protest sites to address the protests in Pinjore, Barwala, Naraingarh and Shahabad.
Charuni said: “Our demand is that the central government immediately repeal its three anti-peasant agriculture bills. It was only a symbolic protest today and in the coming days, the unrest will intensify, if the government does not change its position.”
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