The largest among the 31 farm organisations in Punjab protesting the central government’s Farm Laws set out for Delhi on Saturday in a cavalcade that stretches for 40 km, as they resumed their onward journey from Haryana’s Jind town where they made a night halt under the open skies.
Packed in hundreds of tractor-trailers, buses, cars and motorcycles loaded with eatables these farmers belong to the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta-Ugrahan and they will reach the national capital soon.
As per police estimates, the number of protesters belonging to the Left-leaning union BKU Ekta-Ugrahan could be between 1.5 to 2 lakh with a sizeable number of youngsters and women.
The BKU protesters are largely from Sangrur, Mansa, Bathinda and Barnala districts.
Simultaneously, hundreds of thousands of farmers belonging to the Kisan Sangharsh Committee started their journey from Amritsar city towards Delhi via Haryana. They are likely to reach Delhi later in the day.
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