Farmers Take Indo-US Trade Deal Protest to Chandigarh

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Hundreds of farmers held a massive rally in Chandigarh on Friday, demanding a reduction in petrol and diesel prices. Farmers entered the city in over a hundred buses, tractors and trolleys and staged a protest.

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Two Punjab farmer groups, the Bharatiya Kisan Union Ugrahan and the Bharatiya Kisan Union Dakaunda (Dhaner Group), are holding a joint protest in Chandigarh today demanding the cancellation of the India-US trade deal, a rollback of rising diesel and petrol prices, and the Punjab government's land pooling policy. A large number of farmers from Mansa district have arrived in Chandigarh to join the protest. Farmer leaders Ram Singh Bhaini Bagha, Ma…