A day ahead of their protest against non-payment of relief to the flood-affected people, farmer leaders of 16 unions led by the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee were detained.
Condemning the violent incidents during the tractor rally on Republic Day that left a farmer dead and many others injured, the organisations appealed to the farmers to "stay at the protest venues and continue a peaceful protest".
Sukhwinder Singh (55), joint Secretary of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee Punjab, said the women themselves came forward to participate in the tournament
Some youths threw metal barricades into the Ghaggar river from the bridge where they were stopped, repeating what an earlier group of farmers had done on Thursday
