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Farmers' protest in Punjab causing significant losses as roads, railway tracks blocked for past three months impacting train routes towards Delhi. Recent protests at Shambhu station affecting 149 trains. Anti-BJP slogans raised, activists arrested.

Sources said for a small farmer, the cost of extracting groundwater has increased in the last few years, and therefore, by moving away to crops that were not water-intensive, the input costs would have reduced

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has, meanwhile, condemned the Centre for setting up multi-layered barricades at the border points between Punjab and Haryana to prevent the protesting groups from heading towards the national capital

On the proposed February 16 bandh call given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and various other organisations, Tikait said school vans, vehicles carrying patients and military vehicles will be exempted. The problems should be resolved through talks, he added.

The heavy security arrangement appeared to be an action replay of the government’s response to the yearlong agitation by the farmers in 2020-21 against the now-repealed farm laws

While addressing a press conference before heading towards the national capital as a part of the Delhi Chalo protest by farmers, Sarwan Singh Pandher said, "Congress party does not support us, we consider Congress equally responsible as much as the BJP. These laws were brought by Congress itself. We are not in favour of anyone, we raise the voice of farmers."

In 10 years, Kharge said, the Modi government has broken three promises made to food providers of the country. These were, he added, doubling of farmers income by 2022, implementation of input costs plus 50 per cent in accordance with the Swaminathan report and the grant of legal status to MSP.

Hundreds of tractor trolleys dotted the roads leading to Chandigarh, resembling a Singhu-Tikri border-like gathering in 2021. 

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Visuals from Jantar Mantar showed farmers jumping over and removing barricades put up by the police near the wrestlers’ protest site