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ExpressAHEAD OF a five-day dharna threatened by farmers outside Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s residence in Patiala, nearly 300 farmers were arrested in Bathinda and Patiala zones on Sunday and Monday. In Bathinda, union leaders Gurjit Singh Gill, Hardev Singh Jaisinghwala and a few others have been arrested. The farmers, however, stated that the government had failed to notify the promises made to farmers and instead, started arresting farmers. Express Farmers protest against the state government Monday. All these are preventive arrests in which several active farmer union leaders have been taken into custody..