UP Farmers Headed to Delhi to Protest Against Centre's Farm Ordinances Stopped at Border
News 18A group of Uttar Pradesh farmers marching to the national capital to protest against the three recently cleared central farm ordinances were stopped at the Delhi-UP border, police said. A senior police officer said the farmers, affiliated to the Bharatiya Kisan Union, were going to the Jantar Mantar, but were stopped at the NH-24 near the Ghazipur border, and asked to send their representatives who would talk to the authorities. They were raising slogans against the ordinances – Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Ordinance, Farmers Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance and the Essential Commodities Ordinance. On Thursday also, the Bharatiya Kisan Union and other farmer organisations in Haryana had blocked the national highway at Pipli in Kurukshetra district in protest against the ordinances, which they claimed were anti-farmers.