Chandigarh, July 22 -- Hundreds of farmers, responding to a nationwide call by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) against the proposed India-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), staged a protest in Chandigarh on Wednesday after police stopped their march towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Sector 33. A brief scuffle broke out when security personnel prevented the protesters from moving ahead by erecting barricades.
The protesters had assembled at Kisan Bhawan in Sector 35 before beginning their march towards the BJP office. As the procession advanced, police intercepted the farmers on the route, leading to pushing and jostling between the two sides. Authorities, however, prevented the demonstrators from proceeding further, following w...