Hundreds of protesting farmers gather along Punjab-Haryana border

Chandigarh, Nov 25 : Hundreds of farmers from Punjab started gathering on Wednesday morning on the interstate borders along Haryana that has restricted their movement towards national capital Delhi for their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest against the three central farm laws.
As a preventive step, neighbouring BJP-ruled Haryana has imposed Section 144 of the CrPC to prevent assembly of protesters.
Also, the police had taken nearly 100 farmer leaders from the state into “preventive custody”.
As per the police estimates, around 2,00,000 farmers from Punjab are set to leave for Delhi as part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation from November 26.
Farmer body Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) President Balbir Singh Rajewal said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has got sealed the interstate borders for Punjab farmers to prove that “Punjab is not part of India”.
“We will peacefully block the routes to Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir. Will start dharna on the roads,” he tweeted.