Punjab farmers sat on a protest near Chandigarh-Mohali border after being stopped to enter the state capital. The protesting farmers are demanding a bonus on wheat. Farmers want a bonus of Rs 500 on each quintal of wheat as their yield dropped.
The Mohali police put up barricades and tippers and rolled out water cannons to prevent protesting farmers from entering Chandigarh. The Chandigarh police too made similar security arrangements.
SKM said that farmer leaders are not seeking some meaningless amendments in the central farm laws which have fundamental flaws and urged the people to punish the BJP. (PTI photo)
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: As their agitation against the new agri laws completed seven months, farmers tried to march to governors residence in several states on Saturday even as Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar appealed them to end their stir and offered to resume talks on the provisions of the three legislations.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions protesting at various Delhi border points, claimed that farmers were detained in states like Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana during the protests.
Tribune News ServicePanipat, June 25
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has put everything in place to hold a protest at the Raj Bhavans of Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh tomorrow.
Thousands of farmer