In UP’s Muzaffarnagar district, a tractor march by farmers on a highway disrupted traffic in many places.They also blocked the left lane of the Delhi-Dehradun national highway.The protesters parked their tractors at Bhuraheri under the Purkaji police station area, Bhangela under the Khatauli police station area, Mansoorpur intersection and Rampur Tiraha under the Chhapar police station area.BKU workers and farmers parked their tractors on National Highway 58 in Meerut causing jam on the road.An effigy representing the WTO was also burnt there.During this, BKU district president Anurag Chaudhary had a heated exchange of words with officials.The BKU workers held a meeting under the chairmanship of Madanpal Yadav during which the office bearers called for marching to Delhi on March 14.In Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, farmers parked their tractors at several locations including the Jalandhar-Jammu National Highway.Led by Doaba Kisan Committee’s state president Jangveer Singh Chauhan, farmers also parked their tractors on a road at Bijli Ghar Chowk in Tanda.Addressing a gathering, Chauhan criticised World Trade Organization (WTO) policies, calling those “anti-farmers”.Members of several other farm outfits such as Bharti Kisan Union (Rajewal), BKU (Qadian), BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) also held demonstrations and parked their tractors on Hoshiarpur-Phagwara Road, Nasrala-Taragarh Road, Dosarka-Fatehpur Road, Bullowal-Allowal Road and Bhunga-Hariana Road.The protesters also demanded legal guarantees for MSP, debt waiver, implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendations and pensions for farmers.In Amritsar, farmers parked their vehicles along the highways in Ajnala, Jandiala Guru, Rayya and Beas.In Ludhiana, farmers owing allegiance to the SKM, parked their tractors along the highway on Ludhiana-Chandigarh road to register their protest against the WTO.In Haryana’s Hisar, farmers held protests at 50 locations by parking their tractors along the state and national highways.All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) state vice president Shamsher Singh Nambardar said the demonstrations were held at places including Surewala Chowk, Mayyar Toll, Chaudhariwas, Bagla Mor, Badopatti and Bas Toll.He claimed that the government was not giving MSP on all crops because of WTO policies.
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