Farmers from the villages of Punjab began their march towards Delhi on Tuesday after a meeting with two Union ministers over their demands remained inconclusive. They are expected to press the Centre to accept their demands, including the enactment of a law to guarantee a Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops.The farmers have announced that more than 200 unions were marching to Delhi.The farmers’ march to Delhi on their tractor-trolleys, laden with dry rations, water-proof sheets, and mattresses, is happening via the Ambala-Shambhu, Khanauri-Jind and the Dabwali borders.Meanwhile, authorities in Haryana have fortified the state’s borders with Punjab at many places in Ambala, Jind, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra and Sirsa using concrete blocks, iron nails and barbed wire to scuttle the proposed march.The Haryana government has also imposed restrictions under Section 144 of the CrPC in as many as 15 districts, prohibiting the assembly of five or more people and banning any kind of demonstration or march with tractor trolleys.In Delhi, Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora issued strict orders valid for the next 30 days to maintain law and order in the city.On Monday, tractor trolleys had set out from different parts of Punjab to join the protest march. Many farmers on their tractor trolleys had assembled at Mehlan Kalan Chowk in Sangrur district.On the tractor trolleys sporting flags of the farm unions, farmers have packed essential items, including dry ration, mattresses and utensils, among others.An excavator was also among the convoy of tractor trolleys, with a farmer in Amritsar saying it would be used to break barricades.
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