New Delhi: A joint forum of central trade unions has announced to observe a two-day nationwide strike from Monday, to protest against central government policies.

The All India Bank Employees Association has also extended its support to the protest.

Unions said that they are holding protest against a number of government policies, which have been affecting workers, farmers and citizens of the country.

Union will observe a bandh on March 28 and 29 under the banner of Central Trade Unions and Sectoral Federations and Associations and this pan India strike is against “the anti-worker, anti-farmer, policies of the Union government, a statement said.

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New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said that farmers will not permit central government to implement the contentious three-farm bills in the country and they are protesting against it for the last 10 months but are ready to agitate for 10 years, if required.

Speaking at a mahapanchayat held by farmers in Panipat on Sunday before the bandh, Tikait said that it has been 10 months of this agitation but BJP-led union government is not willing redress the genuine demands of the farmers and government must listen with open ears that even if we have to agitate for 10 years we are ready.

Several senior farmer leaders, including Tikait and Gurnam Singh Chaduni, addressed the mahapanchayat. Chaduni urged all sections of society to join the Bharat Bandh and observe a peaceful protest.

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Chandigarh: To mark their protest against three contentious farm-bills, farmer organisations have called a “Bharat Bandh” on Monday and blocked highways along with railway tracks at various locations in the country.
On the directions of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), farmers are holding protest at nearly 500 places in Punjab, including the sites of 108 pucca dharnas. They have called for the closure of government and private offices, educational and other institutions, shops, industries and commercial establishments. However, farmers were instructed by the SKM to allow passengers those are in emergency including ambulances during the road block.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has extended support to the bandh. Similarly, Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav announced to take part in the protest. The Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu governments also extended their full support to the Bandh. Congress has also said it will be joining the protests on Monday.
The bandh will be held from 6am to 4pm on Monday. No political parties will be given space on farmers’ stage, farmers said.

Live update-

– 25 trains affected due to Bharat Bandh: Railways
The Delhi-Amritsar Shan-e-Punjab, New Delhi-Moga Express, Old Delhi-Payhajot Express, Vande Bharat Express from New Delhi to Katra, and Amritsar Shatabdi are some of the trains affected.

– Punjab: The first Cabinet meeting of the full Council of Ministers as a meeting called to express solidarity with the farmers by the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday. Only farmer issues were discussed, Channi said.

-Mumbai: No impact of strike; shops, transport operating as usual in Mumbai. The local police have not deployed an extra security force at key junctions and roads in the wake of the Bharat Bandh

– Amritsar: Protestors block railway tracks near Amritsar on Bharat Bandh

-Delhi-Gurgaon border on high security, traffic restricted

– Muktsar: Farmers block all highways in the district.

– Delhi-Amritsar National Highway blocked
– Railway track blocked near Fatehgarh village in Charkhi Dadri district
– Rohtak: Farmers blocked all roads passing through Rohtak.
– Sangrur: Sangrur-Patiala, Sangrur-Ludhiana and Sangrur-Bathinda roads have been blocked by farmers.
– Road blocked at dhanana village in Bhiwani district.
– Chandigarh-Bathinda national highway near Passiana police station in Patiala district have been blocked.

– Hisar: A train has been halted by farmers near Ramayan village where farmers sit on dharna at a toll plaza.
– Ludas-Shahpur road in Hisar district also blocked.
– Jhajjar: The Rohtak-Delhi track is blocked by agitating farmers at Bahadurgarh railway station near Tikri border.
– Haryana: Paramilitary forces deployed in Jind district

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Uttar Pradesh: The Kisan Mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar on Sunday has given a call for complete Bharat Bandh on September 27 in protest against the three contentious farm laws.
Farmers said that the BJP led union government claim that only a handful of farmers are protesting. “Let them see what a handful this is today. Let us raise our voices so it reaches the ears of those sitting in Parliament,” the speakers said while stating that farmer unions anonymously decided to shut down the centre on September 27.
Intensifying their protest against contentious three-farm bills that Parliament passed last year, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a joint front of 13 farmers’ unions, have organised a mahapanchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar.
This mahapanchayat has been organised by farmers at the Government Inter College ground in Muzaffarnagar, ahead of the crucial UP assembly polls next year.
Farmers belonging to over 300 organizations from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka among others, have gathered for the event to mark their protest against BJP-led union government, said Bharatiya Kisan Union media in-charge Dharmendra Malik.

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