Bharat Bandh today: What will remain open, what closed
Bharat Bandh: The 4-hour Bharat bandh will affect transport services, especially in the NCR region. From transport bodies to cab services, several unions have backed farmers' agitation
- Dec 8, 2020,
- Updated Dec 8, 2020 9:02 AM IST
A nationwide strike called by agitated farmers is taking place on Tuesday in order to press for the repeal of the Centre's three contentious agricultural laws. The farmers' Bharat Bandh announcement has received support from almost all opposition parties and several trade unions. The Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Trinamool Congress, DMK and its allies, TRS, RJD, Aam Aadmi Party, Samajwadi Party and the Left are among the political parties that are backing the strike.
Appealing to everyone to join the "symbolic" bandh, farmer leaders said they will block key roads during their 'chakka jam' protest from 11 AM to 3 PM. Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said, "It is a four-hour symbolic bandh for an ideological cause. We want that there should be no problem to the common people. We appeal to them not to travel during this period". Farmers said that services such as ambulance, even weddings, can go on as usual.
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) buses will operate as usual.
For the last 13 days, farmers are protesting at the Delhi border to put pressure on Centre to repeal the three farm laws -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. The farmer community has expressed apprehension that the new laws are "anti-farmer", and would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the "mercy" of big corporations.
However, the government has maintained that the new laws will bring farmers better opportunities and usher in new technologies in agriculture.
So far, five rounds of the meetings have happened between the Centre and the farmers' unions. However, the farmers said that the government has not made any "constructive proposals", and are demanding a "yes or no" on withdrawal of the laws. The sixth round of talks between the government and the protesting farmers is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.
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A nationwide strike called by agitated farmers is taking place on Tuesday in order to press for the repeal of the Centre's three contentious agricultural laws. The farmers' Bharat Bandh announcement has received support from almost all opposition parties and several trade unions. The Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Trinamool Congress, DMK and its allies, TRS, RJD, Aam Aadmi Party, Samajwadi Party and the Left are among the political parties that are backing the strike.
Appealing to everyone to join the "symbolic" bandh, farmer leaders said they will block key roads during their 'chakka jam' protest from 11 AM to 3 PM. Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said, "It is a four-hour symbolic bandh for an ideological cause. We want that there should be no problem to the common people. We appeal to them not to travel during this period". Farmers said that services such as ambulance, even weddings, can go on as usual.
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) buses will operate as usual.
For the last 13 days, farmers are protesting at the Delhi border to put pressure on Centre to repeal the three farm laws -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. The farmer community has expressed apprehension that the new laws are "anti-farmer", and would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the "mercy" of big corporations.
However, the government has maintained that the new laws will bring farmers better opportunities and usher in new technologies in agriculture.
So far, five rounds of the meetings have happened between the Centre and the farmers' unions. However, the farmers said that the government has not made any "constructive proposals", and are demanding a "yes or no" on withdrawal of the laws. The sixth round of talks between the government and the protesting farmers is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.
Also read: Bharat Bandh: Transport services, essential supplies likely to be affected in Delhi on Tuesday
Also read: Ten trade unions extend moral support to farmers' call for 'Bharat Bandh' on Dec 8