Rain compounds problems; residents question the administration & police’s decision to allow the rally, given that the city is already susceptible to traffic snarls during rains
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.
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…