Chandigarh/Khanauri/Ambala, March 20 -- Punjab Police on Wednesday detained hundreds of farm leaders and demolished protest sites to dismantle a 13-month-long agitation by some agricultural groups at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders with Haryana, hours after talks between the cultivators and the government ended inconclusively.
Police detained several SKM (Non-Political) leaders, including Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who began his indefinite hunger strike on November 26, 2024 demanding a legal guarantee for MSP.
"The demands of the farmers are against the Centre and they should protest in Delhi... [and] shouldn't block the roads of Punjab," said Punjab minister Harpal Singh Cheema. Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu co...