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Protesting farmers to stage one-day hunger strike today

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New Delhi: Leaders of agitating farmer unions have decided to stage a one-day hunger strike today, December 14.

The farmers will hold the hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm today, while protests will be held in all district headquarters to press their demand for the repeal of the new farm laws.

More protesters are heading for Delhi with a large group blocking the key Delhi-Jaipur national highway when it was stopped by police on Haryana-Rajasthan border.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he too will observe a day-long fast on Monday and appealed to the central government to shun ego and scrap the legislation.

Prohibitory orders in Rewari coupled with barricades and heavy police deployment prevented hundreds of farmers marching towards Delhi from Rajasthan on Sunday from crossing into Haryana.

The protesters then decided to set up camp on the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway at Jaisinghpur Kheda along the Rajasthan-Haryana border (NH-48), bringing traffic on the otherwise busy route to a complete halt.

The farmers’ protest completes nearly three weeks.

 

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