India News | Farmers Hold Protest in Hisar, Demand Compensation for Crops Destroyed by Recent Rains
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Farmers on Thursday held a protest here demanding compensation from the state government for their crops destroyed by recent heavy rains.
Hisar, Aug 10 (PTI) Farmers on Thursday held a protest here demanding compensation from the state government for their crops destroyed by recent heavy rains.
The police stopped the farmers on the main roads outside the city when they headed to the Hisar mini-secretariat to 'gherao' it as part of their protest.
They were stopped by police on Hisar-Sirsa bypass, Rajgarh and Balsamand roads.
Farmers alleged that the police had put up dumpers, the roadways buses and barricades to stop them.
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When the police tried to stop them, the farmers tried to break the barricades.
However, the police had placed dumpers full of sand and gravel in front of the barricades, which the farmers could not cross.
The Sirsa-Delhi National Highway was blocked for some time as the police stopped the farmers, many of whom were on tractors, on the Hisar bypass. There was a traffic jam on the Hisar-Sirsa-Delhi bypass.
The farmers had given an ultimatum regarding the gherao of the mini secretariat here in support of their demand.
On Thursday they started reaching here with tractors to gherao the mini secretariat before being stopped by the police.
(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)