Punjab Chief Minister Calls Farmers Protest "Unwarranted"
NDTV
Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the government for a bonus on wheat crop and allow paddy sowing from June 10.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday called the agitation by state farmers as unwarranted and undesirable but said he is ready for talks.
He also asked farmer unions to join the state government's efforts to check depleting groundwater in Punjab.
Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the government for a bonus on wheat crop and allow paddy sowing from June 10.
The government has asked farmers not to go for paddy transplantation till June 18.