Farmers protesting over MSP and farm laws clash with police at Mohali-Chandigarh border
Farmers marching towards Chandigarh’s Raj Bhavan clashed with police at the Mohali border as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to stop protesters.
Farmers marching towards Chandigarh’s Raj Bhavan clashed with police at the Mohali border as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to stop protesters.
Cheema pointed out that there has been no increase in the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, nor any concrete assistance to strengthen mandi and market infrastructure, leaving agrarian states deeply disappointed.
He alleged that the AAP, which was in power for a decade in the national capital, is now unable to withstand the progress and work done by the BJP government in just seven months, with the results visible on the ground.
The AAP government has urged the Union government to allocate a special package to the state to compensate it for the industrial packages given to hill states by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
This year the sowing was done over 1.25 lakh acres (50,000 hectares), an increase of around 70,000 acres from the previous season.
The Punjab farmers had come to Shimla from Singhu border near Delhi to spread awareness and garner support for their protests against the Centres three controversial farm laws; they were detained by police from the Ridge ground
Condemning the use of water cannons and tear gas shells by the Haryana police to disperse protesting Punjab farmers headed to Delhi as they tried to break through barricades in Ambala, Badal said the Bharatiya Janata Party governments at the Centre and Haryana were treating farmers as one treats enemies.
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