Farmers’ protests | Farmers block roads, toll plazas to protest against farm laws
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Three-hour “chakka jam” hits Punjab, Haryana most; scattered impact in other States
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Farmers block a road during their ‘chakka jam’ protest in Bathinda on February 6, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Three-hour “chakka jam” hits Punjab, Haryana most; scattered impact in other States
The three-hour “chakka jam” or road blockade protest called by farm unions on Saturday went off smoothly, despite about 60 people being detained at a solidarity protest site within Delhi. There were also reports from some unions of detentions at Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka. With fears of Republic Day-style chaos and violence looming in the background, security forces had stepped up deployment within the capital, and farm unions called off protests in U.P. and Uttarakhand.
Lack of political clarity, support holding back Haryana farmers
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Their Punjab counterparts are at the forefront of the agitation against new laws
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Their Punjab counterparts are at the forefront of the agitation against new laws
Three weeks after the agitation over the three contentious agriculture sector laws reached the doorsteps of Delhi and support to them gradually growing, the rather “poor” participation of farming community from Haryana, surrounding the national Capital on three sides, remains in sharp contrast to Punjab, which has been at the forefront of the movement.
Despite substantial similarities between the two States both being leading agricultural States with strong Agricultural Produce Market Committee market system and culturally identical the farmers in Haryana have differed in their response to the agitation for a host of political, social and historical reasons.