Farmers from across multiple states bordering the country capital are set to launch their ‘Chalo Delhi’ march on Tuesday, February 13. The farmer leaders from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh met with Union ministers on Monday evening, with the meeting lasting for five hours, in the Centre’s last ditch attempt to halt the protest which is expected to cause gridlock across Delhi NCR on Tuesday. However, the farmers asserted that they will march on Tuesday, leading to the closure of many state borders across Delhi.
Several farmer groups, mainly from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, have announced the march to demand a legal guarantee for MSP for their crops, one of the conditions they had agreed upon when they called off their agitation in 202