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Bharat Bandh LIVE: Farmers are observing nationwide strike today
Bharat Bandh Live: Farmers are observing a complete Bharat Bandh on March 26 (Thursday) to press for their demand to repeal the three farm laws. The nationwide strike is being organised to mark the completion of four months of agitation. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called the bandh. The bandh will be observed till 6 pm. Farmers will block all roads and train routes as part of their protest.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been protesting at Delhi’s borders for over two months demanding rollback of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. Farmers are opposing the laws, terming them against their interest as it will dismantle the mandi system and the MSP structure. Besides, they believe that the laws will give power to corporates over their lands. However, the three laws — enacted in September 2020, have been projected by the Central government as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country. The government has repeatedly assured the farmers that these three laws will not do away with MSP and mandis.
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Bharat Bandh: Odisha declares closure of educational institutes
The Odisha government has declared the closure of all educational institutions across the state on March 26 in view of the nationwide Bharat Bandh call given by farmers unions protesting against the Centre’s farm laws. The Congress and Left parties have announced their support to the 12-hour bandh to be observed from 6 am. The state’s BJD government has asked its employees to reach offices by 9.30 am on Friday in view of the bandh. The front gates of state secretariat Lok Seva Bhawan will be closed at 10:15 am and all the passage will be regulated through rear gates.
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The Utkal University has announced postponement of Plus III fifth semester exams of Arts/Science/Commerce streams scheduled to be held on Friday. The examinations will now be conducted on March 30.
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Members of Left parties held a protest demonstration at Maddilapalem junction in Visakhapatnam today against the Centre over agriculture laws and privatisation of Vizag steel plant
Bharat Bandh LIVE: Farmers block ambulance in Mohali
Farmers in Punjab have laid siege to railway tracks at multiple locations in Pujnjab. In Mohali, protesting farmers blocked roads, causing inconvenience to the public. They also blocked an ambulance here.
Bharat Bandh: Farmers threaten to block road, rail routes
Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said that road and rail transport will be blocked, claiming that markets will also remain closed. The Morcha said that the ‘bandh’ will also be observed in the national capital. Rajewal said that trade unions from organised and unorganised sectors, and transport and other associations have extended their support for the ‘Bharat Bandh’ call of farmer organisations on March 26. “Farmers will block rail tracks in various places. Markets and transport services will be closed during ‘Bharat Bandh’,” Rajewal said.
Bharat Bandh today (March 26)
The Bharat Bandh called by SKM is being supported by representatives of various farmer organisations, trade unions, student groups, lawyer associations, political parties and state governments. Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at the Delhi’s borders — Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur — for more than four months, demanding the repeal of farm laws and ensuring MSP of their produce. They have been protesting against the three laws since November 26 last year.
Bharat Bandh today: Protesters block GT Road, railway track near Shahpur
Ambala: Protesters block GT Road and railway track near Shahpur, in view of 12-hour ‘Bharat Bandh’ call by Samyukt Kisan Morcha against Centre’s Farm Laws
Bharat Bandh: Agitating farmers block NH-24
Hundreds of farmers on Friday blocked the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh Ghazipur border as part of their 12-hour Bharat Bandh on the completion of four months of protest over the three contentious farm laws. The farmers blocked the National Highway 24 that connects Delhi with Ghaziabad. The farmers sat on the highway demanding repeal of the three farm laws.
Bharat Bandh: Supply of vegetables, milk to be affected
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leader Darshan Pal has said that supplies of vegetables and milk will also stopped by the protesting farmers. The SKM is an umbrella body of protesting unions. It appealed to protesting farmers to be peaceful and not get involved in any kind of illegitimate debate and conflict during the bandh.
Bharat Bandh from 6 AM to 6 PM
The Samkyukta Kisan Morcha has said that nationwide shutdown will start at 6 am and it will be in force up to 6 pm across the country on March 26 which marks four months of the farmer agitation at Delhi’s three borders — Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri.
No bandh in poll-bound states
Farmers have said that they will observe banch in four poll-bound states (West bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and Puducherry.
Bharat Bandh LIVE: Shops, factories to remain open in Delhi
The Chambers of Trade and Industry, a body representing traders in Delhi, has said shops and factories will remain open during the ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by farmers protesting against the Centre’s three new farm laws. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a joint front representing farmer unions, has called for a Bharat Bandh on Friday.
Bharat Bandh today (March 26)
Rail and road transportation services are likely to be affected and markets may remain closed in parts of the country on Friday as farmer unions protesting against the three agri laws have called a complete ‘Bharat Bandh’.
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