Chandigarh. To put pressure on the Center on various demands including legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP), a group of 101 farmers resumed their foot march towards Delhi after 12 noon on Sunday at the Punjab-Haryana border. Started from. Police fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesting farmers.
However, after walking a few meters he was stopped by the Haryana Police at the barricading. Haryana Police asked farmers to show permission to take out a foot march. Haryana Police had earlier asked farmers not to proceed further and cited prohibitory orders imposed by the Ambala administration under Section 163 of the Indian Civil Defense Code (BNSS).
In Haryana, security personnel fired tear gas shells at Shambhu border on Sunday. Farmers had to retreat a few meters due to tear gas shells being fired. Some of these farmers had their faces covered and some were wearing glasses. Some farmers were seen shielding themselves from tear gas shells with wet jute sacks.
After moving a few meters forward, the protesters had to face heavy barricades put up by the Haryana Police. Earlier on Friday also, security personnel had fired tear gas shells at the marching farmers, after which the farmers had postponed their march to Delhi. At Shambhu border, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said that our group of 101 farmers and laborers has reached. We have already released the list, if they (police) have decided that they will check the ID before letting us proceed, then they should tell us that we will cooperate in this.
