Farmers in Punjab are protesting for their demands for the second day. Farmers say that they had reached an agreement for Jalandhar after meeting Jalandhar DC Himanshu Aggarwal yesterday, but they have not reached an agreement with the Hoshiarpur administration. Due to which today the farmers have staged a sit-in protest at Jalandhar-Phagwara Highway Sugar Mill Chowk.
Due to the protest at Jalandhar-Phagwara Highway Sugar Mill Chowk, the highway is completely jammed, due to which people are facing problems.
On the other hand, farmers staged a sit-in protest at two places yesterday. They stopped the highway traffic from 10 am. First of all, the sit-in was started by closing the highway in front of Dhannowali railway gate at 10 o'clock. After this, a sit-in was held in front of the sugar mill in Phagwara at 11 am. Police was also present on the spot. They were diverting the traffic from the other side.