The farmers who set out to protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar were stopped on 14 September. Farmers from Kurukshetra and Karnal were stopped at Narela police station. Those coming from Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar Shyamali were stopped at UP gate.
On 10 September, Haryana’s Kurukshetra saw a massive farmers’ protest against the three new agriculture ordinances, passed on 5 June by the Government of India. The farmers, in protest, blocked the National Highway at Pipli in Kurukshetra.
Bharatiya Kisan Union, along with other farmer organisations, came out to protest against the ordinances. They were, however, subsequently lathi-charged by the police. Images of the cops thrashing the protesting farmers have since flooded social media.
Those from Bijnor and Uttarakhand were stopped at UP gate, as well. But, soon after, workers of Bharatiya Kisan Union started…