‘KMP E-way blockade to impact movement of 25,000 vehicles’

The blockade will cause an estimated loss of around ₹75 lakh: toll agency official

Farmer unions have advanced the 24-hour blockade of the 135-km-long Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway by three hours to start at 8 a.m. on Saturday. “Earlier, the blockade was to start at 11 a.m. on April 10, but we have rescheduled it to start at 8 a.m.,” said Inderjit Singh, vice-president, Haryana All-India Kisan Sabha. He said farmers in large numbers would hold sit-ins at all the eleven toll plazas on the highway and also put up tents, if required. “The farmer union activists would also be deployed at the entry points to the highway to ask commuters to avoid the road. Those who would already enter the highway, would be allowed to exit. Commuters stranded on the road will be given food and water by the protesters,” he said.