Farmers Mark 4 Months Of Protest With Bharat Bandh, Block Highway

Farmer unions are protesting against the three agri laws have called a complete ''Bharat Bandh'', even as it will not be observed in four poll-bound states and Puducherry

Rail and road traffic across the country may get affected today as farmers, protesting against three contentious agricultural laws, hold an all-India strike - Bharat Bandh - to mark four months of their agitation at Delhi's borders. This morning, farmers protesting near one of three protest epicentres in the national capital near the Ghazipur border blocked National Highway-9 as they joined the Bharat Bandh strike. In a video message, SKM leader Darshan Pal said that supplies of vegetables and milk will also stopped by the protesting farmers. The Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of protesting unions, appealed to protesting farmers to be peaceful and not get involved in any kind of illegitimate debate and conflict during the ''bandh''.