Police Seal Borders as Farmers Approach Delhi Protesting US Trade Deal

Around a thousand Punjab farmers on their way to Delhi to take part in the Kisan Mahapanchayat to protest against the proposed India-US trade deal were stopped at the Shambhu border on Tuesday as Haryana Police erected barricades and placed cement blocks at the entry point to the neighbouring state. 

Later in the day, Haryana Agriculture Minister Shyam Singh Rana and Ambala Deputy Commissioner Ajay Singh Tomer met the Punjab farmers, received a memorandum from them and



promised to fulfil their demands.

he farmers said they will chart their next course of action soon. A day-long Kisan Mahapanchayat is being organised at Kisan Ghat in Delhi under the banner of 'Desh Bachao Morcha' on Tuesday, to protest against the proposed India-US trade deal. 

Farmer leaders had earlier said that participants from several places, including from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, would take part in the Mahapanchayat.