AMBALA: Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni) president Gurnam Singh Charuni on Sunday marched towards the Delhi border with thousands of supporters, starting from a toll plaza at Shambhu border of Punjab and Haryana.
The visuals looked similar to November 25, 2020, when Haryana farmers did the same under a ‘Dilli Chalo’ call by Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM).
This time, however, farmers were not stopped or blocked by Haryana Police as was done in November.
Thousands from villages of Ambala district gathered at Shambhu border in the morning and started moving towards Delhi in their vehicles in the afternoon.
Once the cavalcade started movement, one side of the three-lane National Highway-44 was jampacked and people heading for Delhi faced long jams.
The cavalcade was heading for Singhu border to provide strength in numbers to an ongoing agitation against the farm laws passed by the Centre.
Apart from Singhu, farmers continued to pour into the protest sites on the Tikri and Ghazipur borders of Delhi.
“A cavalcade of about 2,500 vehicles from Ambala district moved towards Delhi and another one will be taken from Panipat on June 10.
This movement is to warn the government to accept the demands and to show the enthusiasm of one district.
If such a call is given to the entire nation, Delhi will be choked,” said Charuni.
To a query that talks have not resumed with the government for several months, he said, “The government is worried more than us (farmers).”