Farmers March: Protestors headed towards Delhi today amid heavy police checking

NEW DELHI: Thousands of farmers on Friday are headed to the country’s capital New Delhi after witnessing a high-voltage face-off between police personnel and the protesting farmers, who forced their way and entered Delhi’s adjoining areas like Panipat, Sirsa, Kurukshetra, Fatehabad, and Jind.

The farmers, hailing from Punjab and Haryana, in their “Delhi Chalo” march are demanding the ruling dispensation to agree to hear their objections on the clearance of farm laws which, collectively, have paved the way for agri businesses to freely trade farm produce without restrictions, permit private traders to stockpile large quantities of essential commodities for future sales, and lay down new rules for contract farming.

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In the last 12-15 hours, farmers have moved closer to Delhi, prompting Delhi Police to scale up the deployment of security personnel, station sand-laden trucks and water cannons, and use barbed wire for fencing at the Singhu Border to prevent the protesters from entering the city.

The Delhi police has beefed up security at its border with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (Rohtak-Jhajjar border, Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border), Delhi-Gurugram and Delhi-Jammu highway near Karna Lake in Karnal) to prevent thousands of farmers from entering the city on Friday.

The farmers reportedly spent their night near the Panipat toll plaza at the National Highway.

On Thursday, several protesters and policemen were injured as farmers broke barricades and threw them down from a bridge near the Punjab-Haryana border in Shambhu in Punjab’s Patiala and near Haryana’s Ambala.

In view of the farmers' protest march, the Delhi-Gurugram border is currently witnessing heavy traffic jams due to the checking of vehicles by police.

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