Chandigarh, Mar 5 (UNI) Ahead of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha's "indefinite agitation", 18 entry points to Chandigarh were sealed on Wednesday, while the farmers burnt the effigy of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann even as some of their leaders were taken into custody.
Chandigarh police said tto stop farmers from entering into the city from Punjab, 18 entry points
were sealed and about 1200 policemen were deployed at these places.
The SKM announced that wherever they will be stopped, they will start a sit-in. Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugraha) leader Joginder Singh Ugraha appealed to farmers not to create any inconvenience
for the public by blocking roads or tracks.
He suggested that the farmers could start a sit-in on the roadside.
There were also reports of farmer leaders being taken into custody and farmers burning Mann's effigy.
Notably, a meeting between the Chief Minister and representatives of SKM on Saturday failed after Mann, allegedly left the meeting midway. Mann, however, claimed that he had not left the meeting midway but after three hours of deliberations.
The CM said when he had asked farmer leaders whether they would go ahead with their Morcha (protests), they replied in the affirmative, to which he told them than why they made him sit for three hours in the meeting.
"Meetings and Morchas cannot go hand in hand," he had said.
Once the meeting failed and farmers stated that they would go ahead with protests in Chandigarh, The police from Tuesday morning began to take farmer leaders into custody and "house-arrest." UNI GS MR SSP