Security personnel fired some tear gas shells on farmers on Wednesday morning at the Shambhu border near Ambala in Haryana as they gathered there to resume their protest march to the national capital.
The protesting ryots had had a faceoff with the Haryana Police at two border points between the states on Tuesday. Cops had hurled tear gas and water cannons as some of the protestors tried to break past barricades. Police had used tear gas and water cannons against protesters at a border in Haryana’s Jind district as well.
Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, had said that they would return on Wednesday and try to press ahead with around 10,000 protesters at Shambhu.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha are spearheading the ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation to put pressure on the Centre for their demands, including a law on minimum support price for crops and loan waivers.
Their march began around 10 am on Tuesday from Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib, about 40 km from the Haryana border as farmers, including women, packed themselves in tractor-trolleys.
