Farmers' protest in Punjab causing significant losses as roads, railway tracks blocked for past three months impacting train routes towards Delhi. Recent protests at Shambhu station affecting 149 trains. Anti-BJP slogans raised, activists arrested.
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Sources said for a small farmer, the cost of extracting groundwater has increased in the last few years, and therefore, by moving away to crops that were not water-intensive, the input costs would have reduced
Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has, meanwhile, condemned the Centre for setting up multi-layered barricades at the border points between Punjab and Haryana to prevent the protesting groups from heading towards the national capital
On the proposed February 16 bandh call given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and various other organisations, Tikait said school vans, vehicles carrying patients and military vehicles will be exempted. The problems should be resolved through talks, he added.