New Delhi: As the continuing protest towards the three contentious agri legal guidelines handed by the Centre final 12 months entered 100th day, agitating farmers on Saturday blocked the six-lane Kundli Manesar Palwal (KMP) expressway at some locations in Haryana to mark the event. As per the announcement made by farmers’ unions, protest started at 11 am and continued until 4 pm.
The name for blocking the expressway was given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella physique of protesting farmer unions spearheading the agitation towards the agriculture-related legislations.
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The 136-km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) expressway is often known as the western peripheral expressway.
As per stories, agitating farmers blocked the freeway, nevertheless, emergency automobiles together with albulances had been allowed to go. Farmers from Haryana’s Sonipat district additionally introduced their tractors-trolleys and parked them in the course of a stretch of KMP expressway.
Thousands of farmers incluing ladies, representing completely different unions’ had been seen on the expressway holding black flags and raised slogans towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central authorities for not listening to their calls for.
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In Palwal district too, farmers staged a dharna.
The protesting farmers, who’ve been tenting at numerous Delhi borders, have expressed apprehension that the three agri legal guidelines would pave the best way for the dismantling of the minimal assist value (MSP) system, leaving them on the ‘mercy’ of massive firms.
However, Centre has maintained that the brand new legal guidelines will carry higher alternatives to farmers and introduce new reforms in agriculture sector.
