BKU TO BLOCK HIGHWAYS IN HARYANA FOR 3 HOURS TODAY

CHANDIGARH: The Bharatiya Kisan Union’s Haryana unit will hold a statewide protest against the Centre’s farm bills on Sunday during which they will block roads for three hours, even as chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar appealed for deferring the stir and invited them for talks. Haryana BKU chief Gurnam Singh said: “We had warned the government not to go ahead with these ‘antifarmer’ legislations. Tomorrow, we will be holding a protest across the state during which we will block roads.”

KARNAL: Intensifying their agitation against the three agricultural legislations passed in the Lok Sabha, farmers associated with the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Charuni) and other associations have announced to block the state and national highways in Haryana for three hours on Sunday.

The road blockade call comes almost a week after agitating farmers were lathicharged by cops in Kurukshetra’s Pipli. According to information, BKU leader Gurnam Singh Charuni had been going from district to district over the last two days to garner farmers’ support.

According to Charuni, a total of 17 farmer organisations in the state are supporting Sunday’s protest and the farmers “are united despite the government’s efforts to divide them”.

He said they will block the state and national highways from 12pm to 3pm and in each district, one or two spots will be picked, depending on the strength of the farmers. Charuni will lead the agitation from Yamunanagar.

Stating that political parties will be allowed to lend support, BKU (Charuni) state secretary Harpal Sudhal said, “Any political party can support the farmers’ protest but they will not be allowed to politicise it.”

DCs, police chiefs asked to deal with protesters with ‘patience’

CHANDIGARH: Following a statewide road blockade call given by the Bhartiya Kisan

Commuters from HP, Chandigarh could face inconvenience

CHANDIGARH: Commuters planning to travel to Haryana and Delhi from Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh on Sunday are in for inconvenience due to a proposed tractor march of the Congress from Punjab.

The BKU has also announced to hold a chakka jam on the national highway from 12 noon to 3 pm in protest against the three farm Bills enacted by the Parliament.

The tractor march, police officials said, will be stopped at Lalru-Ambala border, resulting in a blockade.

Farmer bodies are united despite government efforts to divide them. GURNAM SINGH CHARUNI, BKU leader

Union (BKU) and some other organisations on September 20 to protest against three farm Bills enacted by the Parliament, the Haryana Home department on Saturday asked the deputy commissioners and district police chiefs to reach out to the organisers to ensure it stays peaceful. In a communication additional chief secretary (ACS), Home, Vijai Vardhan said the organisers should be prevailed upon to desist from blocking the national and state highways. However, in the eventuality of the protesters succeeding in blocking roads, the traffic should be immediately diverted, the officials have been told.