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Farmers from Rajasthan and Haryana
started moving towards Delhi on Sunday morning. The Delhi Police had stepped up vigil on the national capital’s border as farmers had planned to block the Jaipur National Highway-8, which passes through Gurgaon. Farmer leaders on Saturday had said that farmers will start the ”Delhi Chalo” march on their tractors from Rajasthan’s Shahjahanpur through the Jaipur highway at 11 am on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Som Parkash met Home Minister Amit Shah, news agency PTI reported. The ministers were accompanied by BJP leaders from Punjab. Tomar and Parkash, along with their ministerial colleague Piyush Goyal, had led the government’s negotiations with the protesting farmers.
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