India, Sept. 14 -- Farmers from the different parts of Haryana, who gathered at Kurukshetra on September 10, 2020, to protest against the three anti-farmer central ordinances on the call of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), were lathicharged by the Haryana Police.
Since long, the Farmers' Unions of the state have been demanding the withdrawal of these three ordinances namely Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance; the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 an amendment in the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
Amid an increase in the number of coronavirus cases, the state government had asked t...