Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers vow to stop toll collection in Gurugram

GURUGRAM: Members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) have decided to not allow the authorities to charge any toll on highways in the state until the government comes up with any concrete steps to end the deadlock. Earlier, the outfit had given a call for making the toll plazas free for all vehicles for three days from Friday. Gurnam Singh Charuni, the state president of BKU, said the decision to extend the protest at toll plazas indefinitely was taken by the national executive committee after talking to members of the outfit. Farmers have been protesting at toll plazas since Friday and have not allowed the authorities to collect toll from any vehicle. “On Friday, we had visited several toll plazas in the state and the farmers protesting there had suggested that we should make it toll-free for all vehicles until the government listens to our demands. We discussed the issue with our national executive committee and decided to go ahead with our protest at the toll plazas of the state,” Charuni told TOI. The farmer leader, however, assured that the agitations at the toll plazas would not be violent and a committee had been formed to ensure that. “A district-level committee of five to 15 farmers has been formed to manage and run the protest at the toll plazas. We will talk to the officials if needed and focus on Gurgaon and Faridabad too,” he added. Several outfits of farmers have been protesting at toll plazas and stopped collection at all major highways. Some of the protest sites are at the Makdoli toll plaza on the Panipat-Rohtak-Delhi highway, Rohtak-Hisar highway in Madina village, Rohad toll plaza at Rohtak-Delhi highway, Rohtak-Jhajjar-Delhi highway toll plaza at Dighal village in Jhajjar, Bastara and Panipat toll plazas on Delhi-Chandigarh highway and Peont toll plaza on Assandh-Karnal highway.

The Times of India

2020-12-28

Gurgaon