Ghaziabad: Farmers block the KMP Expressway throughout their ongoing agitation towards the three farm legal guidelines, in Ghaziabad, Saturday, April 10, 2021.
Intensifying their protest towards the three farm legal guidelines, farmers blocked the Kundli–Manesar–Palwal expressway at some locations in Haryana on Saturday. The blockade began at 8 am and would final 24 hours. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella physique of protesting farmer unions spearheading the agitation towards the agriculture-related legislations, on Friday gave a name for a 24-hour blockade of the KMP expressway.
The 136-km-long expressway is often known as the Western Peripheral Expressway.
Protesting farmers, nevertheless, stated emergency autos can be allowed to ply. Bhartiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal) normal secretary Harinder Singh Lakhowal stated the blockade could be for 24 hours.
Haryana Police in the in the meantime issued a traffic advisory, asking travellers to keep away from the KMP expressway.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Navdeep Singh Virk on Friday stated elaborate preparations had been in place to take care of peace and order, forestall any form of violence and facilitate traffic motion and public transport on the expressway.
Traffic diversions have been deliberate by affected districts particularly Sonipat, Jhajjar, Panipat, Rohtak, Palwal, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Nuh, Virk stated.
Passengers coming from Ambala/Chandigarh aspect on National Highway-44 could go in direction of UP’s Ghaziabad and Noida by way of Karnal to Shamli and from Panipat to Sanauli.
Vehicles going in direction of Gurgaon and Jaipur can take National Highway-71A from Panipat and journey by way of Gohana, Rohtak, Jhajjar and Rewari.
Hundreds of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at three border factors of Delhi — Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur — demanding a repeal of the three farm legal guidelines enacted by the Centre in September final 12 months.
The Centre says the brand new farm legal guidelines will free farmers from middlemen, giving them extra choices to promote their crops.
The protesting farmers, nevertheless, say the legal guidelines will weaken the minimal assist worth (MSP) system and depart them on the mercy of massive corporates.
(With PTI inputs)
