New Delhi,27,2020: Delhi police has allowed the protesting farmers to enter Delhi after hours of lathi-charge and tear gas at the Haryana-Delhi border. The police will escort the farmers. The farmers have clashed with the police for two days and continued their march towards Delhi for a massive protest against new farm laws. Groups of farmers, walking with tractors carrying stocks of food and essential supplies, were trying to enter Delhi from multiple points, defying barricades, many wrapped in barbed wire. To stop their progress, the Haryana police had dug trenches at various crossing points. This morning, farmers tear-gassed at the Haryana-Delhi border were seen arguing with the police who tried to push them back.
Modified tractors, carrying rations, woollens, essential items and people, passed through Haryana on Thursday evening as thousands of Punjab farmers protesting against the government’s new farm laws, slowly moved closer to Delhi. Undeterred by police barricades, tear gas and water cannons, the farmers have been continuing the march since Thursday morning.
“More than 50,000 farmers will be standing at the Delhi border by today evening,” two farmers’ bodies claimed. Close to midnight, water cannons started up at Haryana’s Sonipat to disperse a small group of Punjab farmers.
Punjab farmers are demanding the repeal of the new farm laws, which, they said, should be replaced with another set of legislations framed after wider consultation with the stakeholders. They also want a guarantee on the minimum support price.
