New Delhi: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of farmers' unions, has called for a Bharat Bandh on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the enactment of the three farm laws.
"It was on September 27th that President Shri Ram Nath Kovind assented to and brought into force the three anti-farmer black laws last year. Tomorrow, there will be a total Bharat Bandh observed around the country from 6 am to 4 pm," SKM said in an official statement on Sunday.
The bandh will be observed from 6 AM to 4 PM during which all government and private offices, educational and other institutions, shops, industries and commercial establishments as well as public events and functions will be closed throughout the country, the SKM said.
However, emergency establishments and essential services, including hospitals, medical stores, relief and rescue work and people attending to personal emergencies will be exempted from the bandh. SKM has put out detailed guidelines and called for complete peace during the bandh and also appealed to all citizens of the country to join the Bandh.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has intensified patrolling and deployed extra personnel at pickets in border areas of Delhi. The traffic movement has been closed from Uttar Pradesh towards Ghazipur due to protest, Delhi traffic police said in a tweet.
"Patrolling has been intensified, extra personnel have been deployed at the pickets especially across the border areas and every vehicle entering the national capital is being thoroughly checked," a senior police officer told a news agency. He also said that adequate security arrangements will be made to maintain the law and order situation and no protestor will be allowed to enter Delhi from the three protest sites at the city's borders.
Meanwhile, the protesting framers on the Ghazipur border have completely blocked the Delhi-Meerut expressway. All the routes of the expressway have been closed and the traffic has also been diverted.