Farmers took out protest marches at several places in Punjab on Saturday against the weekend lockdown imposed by the state government amid rising cases of Covid-19 infection and fatalities.The protests were taken out in Moga, Patiala, Amritsar, Ajnala, among other places in the state.
Punjab's 32 farmer unions, protesting the Central farm laws, urged shopkeepers to defy the restrictions and open their shops. Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said that lockdown was not the solution to the Covid-19 crisis and also accused the government of doing nothing to improve the health infrastructure.
Police personnel in adequate numbers were deployed across the state in the wake of farmers' protest.