TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Thousands of farmers were allowed to enter Delhi today for a planned protest against new farm laws after a morning of clashes with the police at the border with Haryana.
The Delhi police requested the farmers groups to maintain peace and allowed them to hold protests at North Delhi’s Burari ground. But according to reports, even after the farmers were given the go ahead to assemble in Delhi, the Delhi Police continued teargassing them and used water sprays, allegedly to control crowds.
Groups of farmers from six states, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Kerala and Punjab, are heading to Delhi, with tractors carrying stocks of food and essential supplies, to last them through what they say could be a month-long standoff with the government on the Farmer Laws.
The police have been preventing them from their peaceful march by putting up barricades, installing barbed wire obstacles and even digging up roads to make trenches to prevent the farmers’ tractors from coming through.
