Authorities in Haryana have also fortified the state's border with Punjab at many places in Ambala, Jind, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra and Sirsa using concrete blocks, iron nails and barbed wire to scuttle the proposed march
Delhi Police has imposed Section 144 for a month in the view of intended widespread tension and "social unrest" due to the farmers' 'Delhi Chalo March'
There will be a complete ban on gathering, processions or rallies and entry of tractor trolleys carrying people in the national capital
The Haryana government has also imposed restrictions under section 144 of the CrPC in as many as 15 districts, prohibiting the assembly of five or more people and banning any kind of demonstration or march with tractor-trolleys
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have announced that more than 200 farm unions would head to Delhi on February 13
Besides a legal guarantee for MSP, farmers are also demanding implementation of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police cases and "justice" for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence etc
reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, withdrawal from the World Trade Organisation and compensation for families of farmers who died during the previous 2020 agitation
Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee general secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher said a convoy of tractor-trolleys set out on Monday morning from Beas in Amritsar to assemble in Fatehgarh Sahib district
In New Delhi, traffic restrictions have been put in place and security arrangements intensified at the Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri borders ahead of the march to prevent vehicles carrying protesters from entering the city
Ahead of the meeting, farmers' leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Monday alleged that many agriculturists, who were coming from other states, including Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, to support the 'Delhi Chalo' march, have been detained and sought their release
The Haryana Police and the Chandigarh Police have also issued traffic advisories, asking commuters to take alternative routes
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