They travelled 1,300 km in the past five days to reach Delhi on Friday. Yes, that’s the distance covered by the 60-odd vehicle convoy carrying around 500 cultivators from Maharashtra’s Nashik. Resolve writ large on their faces, they have come to the capital to make a point to the Narendra Modi government — that the ongoing farmers’ agitation is not Punjab and Haryana-specific. On Friday, farmers from Maharashtra joined their comrades from Rajasthan and Gujarat in protesting against the “corporate-oriented” farm laws, after their vehicle caravan was stopped at the interstate border point connecting Rajasthan with Haryana near Shahjahanpur village. A similar march to the national capital was stopped by the Haryana Police almost a fortnight ago, leading to a blockade of one carriageway of the expressway connecting Delhi to Jaipur. On Friday, the swelling number of protesters at the same spot made sure that even the other road going toward Rajasthan’s capital was blocked.
— source newsclick.in | 25 Dec 2020