GHAZIABAD: Farmers protesting towards the Centre’s farm legal guidelines blocked either side of the Jap Peripheral Expressway close to Dasna city right here on Saturday.
The decision for a 24-hour blockade was given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella physique of farmer unions spearheading the agitation.
The blockade began at 8 am and can final 24 hours until Sunday morning.
DIG Amit Pathak instructed PTI that the farmers parked their tractor-trailers on the expressway close to Dasna city of the Masuri police station space.
To forestall any untoward incident, safety personnel had been deployed within the space.
The automobiles en path to Panipat and Sonipat had been diverted from Khekhra in direction of Baghpat.
Equally, the automobiles going to Noida had been diverted to the Nationwide Freeway-9 from Hapur, Pathak mentioned.
However, the protesting farmers criticised the Centre for not withdrawing its contentious legal guidelines and raised anti-government slogans.
Bharatiya Kisan Union media incharge Dharmendra Malik mentioned their protest will proceed at borders of the nationwide capital until their calls for should not met.
Tons of of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at three border factors of Delhi — Singhu, Tikri (alongside Haryana), and Ghazipur–demanding a repeal of the three legal guidelines enacted by the Centre in September final yr.
The Centre says the brand new farm legal guidelines will free farmers from middlemen, giving them extra choices to promote their crops.
The protesting farmers, nonetheless, say the legal guidelines will weaken the minimal help value (MSP) system and go away them on the mercy of massive corporates.
