Farmers plan indefinite protest in Chandigarh; heavy police deployed
CHANDIGARH: A heavy contingent of police has been deployed at the Chandigarh-mohali border after several farmer bodies’ announcement of heading towards the union territory for holding an indefinite protest to press for their demands related to a wheat bonus, paddy sowing and MSP.
Police have put up barricades, tippers and rolled out water cannons to prevent protesting farmers from entering Chandigarh.
Several farmer unions have given a call for protest at Chandigarh on the lines of a year-long agitation at Delhi borders against the Centre’s three farm laws.
Farmers from various parts of Punjab have assembled at gurdwara Amb Sahib in Mohali. They have come in tractor-trolleys, buses and other vehicles, carrying ration, beds, fans, coolers and cooking gas cylinders and other essential items.