Farmers’ body to block highways on June 16

A farmers’ organisation has announced that it will block traffic for three hours on all national highways on June 16. The announcement comes at a time when the Opposition has stepped up its campaign against the BJP govt’s alleged failure to provide relief to the farming community.

A farmers’ organisation has announced that it will block traffic for three hours on all national highways across the country on June 16, upping the ante against the government’s “anti-farmer policies”.

The announcement comes at a time when the Opposition has stepped up its campaign against the BJP government over its alleged failure to provide relief to the farming community and the death of five people in police firing during a Madhya Pradesh farmers’ agitation.

At a meeting in the capital on Saturday, the Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh, a group of 62 farmers’ unions, passed a resolution seeking the dismissal of Shivraj Singh Chouhan as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.

They would also approach the national human rights commission against the killing of the farmers in Mandsaur.

“From June 11-15 there will be peaceful demonstration, we will wear black bans to register our protest.

But on June 16 there will be a pan-India blockade of highways between noon and 3pm,” Vinod Anand, member of the group said.