India, May 5 -- Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal was on Monday kept on house arrest in Faridkot district of Punjab, ahead of a call by senior farmer leaders for a one-day strike by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Sidhupur) outside the Shambhu police station on Tuesday.

Several key farmer activists in various districts of Punjab are being held by the police to prevent any law-and-order situation. A police team reached Dallewal's village around 4am and asked the leader to stay indoors for 3-4 days.

Official sources said several other leaders are facing police action to ensure that BKU (Sidhupur) fails to mobilise its cadre for the agitation.

Dallewal posted a video on his Facebook criticising the police action against the Sidhupur faction...