Haryana farmers block highways and a railway line against farm reform bills

Farmers and ahrtia associations in Haryana have been blocked in several road highways and at least one railway track in the northern parts of the state to implement the nationwide shutdown call given by a group of
farmers’ organizations against the three farm reform bills passed in the
Parliament during the recently concluded Monsoon session.

The protesting farmers sat on dharnas, by blocking traffic movement on highways by parking their tractor-trailers and cars on roads in Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Karnal, and Kaithal districts.

Karnal-Ladwa-Yamunanagar highway near Ladwa town, Karnal-Assandh-Jind road near Jalmaba Village of Karnal, Shahabad-Saha road near Shahbad, Yamunangar-Kurukshetra road near Radaur of Yamunangagar district had been blocked.

The farmers are associated with Bharatiya Kisan Union or BKU, (Charuni), have also blocked the Ambala-Yamunanagar-Saharanpur railway track
near Sudhal village of Yamunanagar district.

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News source: Hindustan Times

Update by Bidisha Roy Choudhury