Chandigarh, March 5 -- The Chandigarh administration has denied permission for a farmers' sit-in at the Sector 34 grounds, deploying over 1,900 security personnel and multi-layer barricading on the Chandigarh-Mohali border to prevent the agitators from entering the city.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), along with 37 other farmer unions, has called for a week-long sit-in in Chandigarh, starting Wednesday, to press for their demands. They also plan to stage a sit-in outside Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann's official residence in Sector 2.

Deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav said, "We have not granted any permission to farmers to stage a protest in Chandigarh and will stop them at any cost."

As per intelligence reports, around 10...