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    • Punjab farmers, millers, and agents plan statewide 'chakka jam' on October 13: Report

      Farmers, millers, and commission agents in Punjab have called for a three-hour "chakka jam" to protest delayed crop procurement, demanding immediate government action or threatening a larger movement similar to past agitations.

    • Farmers Protest | Ready for talks, but won't accept anything less than repeal of farm laws: Protesting unions

      The unions, however, made it clear that they would not settle for anything less than the repeal of the three contentious laws.

    • Farmers' protest | A look at how three-hour 'Chakka Jam' unfolded in the country

      Tens of thousands of protesting farmers blocked highways across the country during the three-hour-long nationwide 'chakka jam' called by protesting farmers on February 6 amid tight security. No violent incident was reported in the national capital which was turned into a fortress with heavy security deployment by the Delhi Police, paramilitary and reserve forces personnel to prevent any untoward situation.

    • Farmers respond to police's 'iron nails' with flowers; see pictures

      Farmers at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border have started planting flower saplings along a road stretch, saying it was their response to 'iron nails' fixed in the area by the police. Stringent security measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, had come up along with iron nails cemented on roads around the protest site in the wake of the January 26 violence in Delhi.

    • Farmers Protest | Delhi put under heavy security blanket, 10 metro stations closed briefly

      Multilayered barricades, barbed wires and nail-studded roads at the protest sites were also part of the precautionary measures taken by the police force.

    • Huge police deployment counters Indian farmers protests

      Ten metro stations were closed in central New Delhi -- where a tractor rally last month turned into a violent rampage -- and thousands of police manned barricades and roadblocks at key intersections.

    • Farmers' Protest | Here are the guidelines issued by Samyukta Kisan Morcha for 'Chakka Jam' on February 6

      The farmers' union has clarified that no roads will be blocked in the Delhi NCR region. They have also made it clear that they only wish for a peaceful demonstration.

    • Farmers dump tonnes of tomatoes on road in Chhattisgarh

      The farmers alleged the "syndicate" of local middlemen and traders was not ready to purchase tomatoes even at 50 paise per kg.

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