The Bharatiya Kisan Union, part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, has called for a ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Friday, citing a host of unmet demands of the peasants.
Various programmes like protest demonstrations are proposed by the SKM and other organisations.
BKU leader Pawan Khatana said during the “Bharat Bandh” called by his union, farmers had been asked to suspend work for a day in order to press the government for demands.
“Farmers have been asked to shun work in farms, or not to go to markets for any purchases. Traders and transporters have also been exhorted to join the strike,” Khatana said.
The farmers’ leader said the protesters would stay put in their areas and not march towards Delhi.
Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni, president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU)-Charuni in Haryana, said farmers would take control of all toll plazas in the state from noon to 3 pm on Friday to protest the police action against the agitating farmers who have gathered along Punjab borders.
