Meanwhile, on the call of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, farmers also staged demonstrations at several toll plazas in Punjab to protest against the Haryana Police action.They also forced the toll authorities to let go commuters without charging them a toll fee.On Tuesday, farmers, mainly from Punjab, had clashed with Haryana Police at two border points between the states, facing tear gas and water cannons as they tried to break the barricades blocking their protest march to the national capital.Besides a legal guarantee for MSP, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police cases and “justice” for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act 2013, and compensation for the families of farmers who died during the previous agitation in 2020-21.
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