Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 27
Farmers on Monday are staging dharnas at nearly 500 places in Punjab, including the sites of 108 pucca dharnas. A large number of protests are being held at railway tracks and highways.
Instructions have been issued by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha to let those in emergency services or those in need of medical care to pass by.
LIVE UPDATES
*Chandigarh-Pathankot highway closed for vehicular traffic at Mangarh by protesting farmers.
*BKU Dakaunda volunteers have closed the gate of Punjabi University in Patiala.
*Ludhiana: All main and link roads passing through the district blocked for vehicular traffic. Protesting farmers, holding banners and placards against farm laws, squatting on the middle of the roads, not allowing anyone to pass through. Commuters in for major inconvenience. Police have made elaborate arrangements to avert any untoward incident, said Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar.
*Kaithal: Farmers block several major roads in Kaithal, including at Titram Mor.
*Doaba Kisan Committee organises blockades at several places on highways running through Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur.
*Farmers start holding protests at 19 places in Bathinda district and 10 places in Mansa district.
*Ambala: Farmers block Delhi-Ambala national highway in Shahabad, Shambhu Toll plaza, NH344 in Mullana.
*Karnal: Smooth traffic flow on the NH-44 in Karnal district. Farmers block six major roads — Karnal-Kaithal road in Nissing, Karnal-Assandh road, Assandh-Jind road, Assandh-Safidon road, Assandh-Panipat road. Farmers are assembling in Karnal to take a march in the city. A large number of farmers are expected to assemble in the city, says Jagdeep Singh Aulakh, state core committee member, BKU (Charuni). “We will appeal to the traders to support the farmers,” Aulakh says. Deployment of heavy police force and a company of RAF near Mini Secretariat.
*Road blocked by protesting farmers at Tanda Urmur.
*Morning Shatabdi from Chandigarh to Delhi delayed.
*Farmers protest during Bharat Bandh by blocking railway tracks at Barnala.
LIVE UPDATES: Farmers block roads at various places in Punjab, Haryana
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