Hisar fallout: Farmers block highways

Tribune News Service

Karnal, May 16

Enraged over the police action on farmers in Hisar, farmers blocked the national and state highways in Karnal, Panipat and Kaithal districts, causing inconvenience to commuters.

The situation remained tense for two hours and the police had to divert traffic.

On the appeal of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni) to block state and national highways for two hours between 5 pm and 7 pm in the state soon after reports of police lathicharge on farmers came, farmers started assembling at Bastara toll plaza on National Highway-44, Panipat toll plaza in Panipat, Peont toll plaza in Karnal district, Assandh-Karnal road near Jaisinghpura, Titram Mor in Kaithal district, Jind-Kurukshetra road in Pai village in Kaithal district and blocked the roads there.

Farmers slammed the BJP-JJP government for holding programmes when the Covid cases were rising.

“We have been staging dharna for the past six months peacefully against the three laws, but the BJP government is not taking the farmers’ agitation seriously. We have already threatened to not allow BJP-JJP workers to hold any programme till the fulfillment of our demands. On the one hand, the government is claiming that Covid cases are rising, but despite this, they are holding programmes, violating the guidelines of lockdown,” said Jagdeep Singh Aulakh, member, state core committee, BKU.

He along with other farmers condemned the police action on farmers and demanded that the government should release the farmers arrested by the police.

They said the CM and other ministers should hold their programme through video conferencing. Otherwise, they would continue to protest.

In a video message, BKU state president Gurnam Singh Charuni also criticised the state government for holding events which provoke the farmers. SP Karnal Ganga Ram Punia said that the blockade was peaceful and they diverted traffic from NH-44.

Ambala: Farmers on Sunday blocked the national and state highways for two hours at nine locations in Ambala and Kurukshetra on Sunday.

Farmers in Ambala blocked the Delhi-Amritsar national highway at the Shambhu border and near Shahpur village, Panchkula-Shahzadpur road and the Ambala-Hisar highway. In Kurukshetra, they blocked five locations, including the Delhi-Chandigarh highway in Shahabad, Kaithal-Ambala road, NH 152 in Ismailabad, in front of the third gate of the Kurukshetra University and Ladwa Road.

A sudden call given by the farmers’ union caused inconvenience to commuters and long queues of vehicles were witnessed on the national highway.

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