BS READS: Farmers' protest -- Anti-corporate agitation takes anti-Modi turn

When the protests started, the anger was directed at large corporates with some hope of redress by the Centre. Now that hope seems to have dissipated

On the Haryana side of the historic grand trunk (GT) road that connects Bangladesh to Afghanistan through Delhi, a siege of unprecedented scale is underway. Thousands of farmers from every district of Punjab have trickled in the past week, blocking off access to the crucial National Highway-44 from the Singhu and Tikri border posts in Delhi. 

Punjab’s farmers have mounted entire villages on their tractor trolleys, with supplies that would last a few months, to launch the blockade. Trolleys have been converted into community sleeping places, with heavy quilts and woollen partitions to protect the elderly from the biting cold.