The Chilla border (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh) border was reopened late on Saturday night for traffic movement. Meanwhile, traffic movement continued to flow as normal across toll plazas in Agra on Saturday despite the farmers’ call to block Agra-Delhi Expressway
The Chilla border (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh) border, which was closed because of the demonstrations by farmers reopened late on Saturday night for traffic movement.
“Our leader met the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar today, we’ve been assured that our demands are going to be fulfilled so we’ve opened the road,” a protesting farmer said.
Meanwhile, traffic movement continued to flow as normal across toll plazas in Agra on Saturday despite the farmers’ call to close Agra-Delhi Expressway today to protest against the farm laws.
“There are five major toll plazas here and that we haven’t any information of everyone of them being blocked by farmers. We are monitoring the plazas also ,” Satyajeet Gupta, Assistant Superintendent of Police (West) Agra said.
On Saturday evening, a delegation of 29 farmers from Haryana met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday to get their support to the new legislations and threatened to stage a protest if those are repealed.
The delegation, led by Bharatiya Kisan Union’s (Mann) Haryana state leader Guni Prakash, submitted a “letter of support” to Tomar on the farm laws passed by Parliament in September and demanded the govt to continue with these legislations.
“We also will protest if the govt repeals the laws. we’ve given a memorandum to all districts,” Prakash told reporters after the meeting.
He also sought to understand why the previous government didn’t implement the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission till 2014.