Farmers Announce 'Chakka Jam'; Trains Diverted: All You Need To Know About Farmers' Protest
The ongoing?farmers¡¯ agitation has entered its 70th day and the farmers have continued to camp at the Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri borders around the national capital.
Farmers have given?a call for a nationwide agitation on February 6, a?week after clashes erupted between farmers and police personnel in Delhi on India's 72nd Republic Day.?This comes even as thousands of farmers have been protesting against the three contentious farm laws at the borders of Delhi for more than two months now.
Country-wide chakka jam
"There will be a country-wide agitation on February 6. We will block roads between 12pm and 3pm," Balbir Singh Rajewal of Bhartiya Kisan Union (R) said, according to news agency ANI.The farmers made the announcement during a press conference at the Singhu Border that they will block national and state highways for three hours to lodge their protest.?
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The road blockade has been called by farm union to reinforce their demands of the repeal of the farm laws, against the suspension of internet and barricading of roads, and against the budget announced on Monday.This announcement from farmers comes amid tight security measures by the Delhi Police near the protest sites.
Trains diverted, nails on roads & borders shut
The administration has left no stones unturned in attempting to thwart the protest.?The police has beefed up security at the Ghazipur border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh - the new focal point of the farmers' agitation.
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Following farmers' chakka jam announcement,?Rajewal said the trains were being diverted to prevent the farmers from reaching the protest sites in the national Capital from the neighbouring states.?
A train carrying hundreds of farmers from Bathinda to Delhi was short terminated at Rohtak while two others were diverted.?
As the number of protesters continues to swell at farmers' protest sites, the Delhi Police has put up multi-layer barricades, spikes on roads, concertina wires and also parked buses sealing the main entry points to prevent the movement of protesters agitating against the Centre's farm laws.?
Makeshift wall built to restrict protesters
At Singhu border, workers under the watch of police personnel on Monday were seen hooking iron rods between two rows of cement barriers on a flank of the main highway to put up a makeshift wall, to further restrict the movement of protesters.
The police has also closed all the four borders for commuters which led to traffic snarls across Delhi.
Massive traffic jams were reported from the eastern, southern and central parts of Delhi which were worsened by the closure of the Ghazipur-Ghaziabad border, Delhi-Meerut expressway, NH-9, and NH-24. The closure of almost all the lanes of NH-24 resulted in bumper-to-bumper traffic on roads in the eastern parts of the city.
