Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers’ convoy from Haryana heads to protest site in Delhi

A large number of farmers in a convoy of hundreds of vehicles from Haryana’s Ambala on Sunday reached the Singhu border outside Delhi, which has been the site of protests by the farmers’ unions. The unions said more farmers from Haryana were expected to join the protest sites in the next few days. Led by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni) president Gurnam Singh Charuni, the convoy, mostly comprising cars with black flags, set off from Ambala through Karnal and Panipat on the Delhi-Amabala highway. BKU’s spokesperson Rakesh Bains claimed that around 3,500 vehicles were part of the convoy. He added that another convoy from Haryana’s Panipat would join the site on June 10. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), in a press statement, claimed that a large number of protesters continued to pour into various sites at the Singhu border, the Tikri border, Ghazipur and other locations. “While the spin doctors of BJP continue to try to create an image of dwindling numbers at the protest sites, the government should know that quite the opposite is the case, and all protest sites are witnessing a huge surge of protesters joining the sites,” said the press statement.

The Hindu

2021-06-07

NEW DELHI