Farmer unions protesting against three contentious farm laws on Monday announced three-hour nationwide road blockade on state highways and national highways on February 6 in protest against the suspension of internet at their agitation sites and alleged harassment meted out to them by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Union leaders in a press conference at the Singhu border said that they will block the roads between 12 pm to 3 pm on February 6. The farmer unions also alleged that they have been ignored in the Union Budget 2021-22, and the water supply have been cut off at their protest sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha alleged that the Twitter accounts of Kisan Ekta Morcha and a user named ‘Tractor2Twitter’ have been restricted. Farmer leader Darshan Pal said the announcement of the Chakka Jam has been made to protest against the government\u2019s repressive measures against the protesters and reduction of budgetary allocation for the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, over 100 twitter accounts related to the farmers\u2019 protest went off the microblogging platform as the Information Technology Ministry ordered Twitter to remove these accounts under section 69A of the Information Technology Act. The suspended accounts included those of Kisan Ekta Morcha, The Caravan Magazine, Prasar Bharti CEO Sashi Shekhar among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the sources, the withheld accounts had tweeted against Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the hashtags like #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide. However, Twitter later unwithheld the accounts on grounds of freedom of speech and presence of newsworthy elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said farmers coming to join the agitation by trains were also being harassed, hence a protest will be staged against all these atrocities in the form of a three-hour chakka jam across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Punjab Mail was diverted while another train, running via Punjab and Haryana and headed to Old Delhi, was short-terminated at Bahadurgarh on Monday, allegedly to prevent farmers from reaching Delhi to join the ongoing protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav had claimed that the action against the Twitter account was taken on the request of government authorities. He also said the Union government has reduced the allocation to the farm sector in this budget, when people hoped they would keep something for farmers as it was being presented during the agitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n