On Friday, rail and road transportation services are likely to be affected and markets may remain closed in some parts of the country as farmer unions protesting against the three agri laws have called a complete Bharat bandh or countrywide shutdown.
According to the Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, the countrywide shutdown will start at 6 am and it will be in force up to 6 pm across the country on 26 March which marks four months of the farmer agitation on Delhi’s three borders — Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri.
Senior farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said that road and rail transport will be blocked, claiming that markets will also remain closed.
He said that trade unions from organized and unorganized sectors, and transport and other associations have extended their support for the call of farmer organizations on 26 March. However, emergency services like ambulance and fire service will be allowed during the nationwide shutdown, he added.
Confederation of All India Traders said that markets will remain open on 26 March as it is not participating in the bandh.
CAIT’s national general secretary Praveen Khandelwal told PTI that “we are not going to participate in bandh tomorrow. Markets will remain open in Delhi and other parts of the country. The ongoing deadlock can be resolved only through a dialogue process. There should be discussions on amendments in the farm laws that can make existing farming profitable”.buy priligy Canada langleyrx.com/priligy.html no prescription
Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar, who is also a senior member of Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, said that the major impact of the ‘’Bharat Bandh’’ will be felt in Haryana and Punjab.
Kohar said that farmers have appealed to trader associations to close their shops during the nationwide shutdown as the three new agri laws will also affect them indirectly.
The farmer leader said that in poll-bound Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry, the Samkyukta Kisan Morcha has appealed to people to not observe bandh at these places.