Protesting Farmers Stopped At Shambhu Border, Tear Gas Used (image:x.com/samitakaur74)
New Delhi: Protesting Farmers have been stopped at the Shambhu border from heading towards Delhi and Haryana Police fired tear gas shells at protesting farmers.
A ‘jatha’ or a group of farmers began a foot march to Delhi on December 6, Friday but they were paused a few metres away by a multilayered barricading on National Highway 44, Haryana police asked farmers not to advance further, and cited prohibitory order under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). As they attempted to remove barricades and barbed wires set up by the police to proceed, Police deployed tear gas and water canons to disperse them.
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Protesting farmers have been gathered together under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha. The farmers march aims to urge the Centre to meet list of demands including a legal guarantee for the minimum support price for crops, no hikes in electricity rates, a debt waiver, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, and justice for the victims of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri in 2021. The compensation to the families of farmers who died during the previous agitation in 2020-21, and restoration of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and are also part of their demands.
The Haryana government have suspended mobile internet and bulk SMS service in 11 villages of Ambala district till December 9. Security have been beefed up at the border points in Delhi.
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Meanwhile, shortly before the farmers began their march, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told the Rajya Sabha on Friday that the Narendra Modi government would purchase all farm produce at the minimum support price.
“I want to assure the House… all produce of farmers will be purchased at Minimum Support Price. This is the Modi government and (we will) fulfil Modiji’s guarantee,” the NDTV quotes as Shivraj Singh Chouhan is saying.
