TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ After the Delhi Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse off the protesting farmers, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the farmers should not be dissuaded from pressing their demands.
“Delhi belongs to everyone. Farmers should be allowed to enter Delhi. Why are they not being allowed to enter Delhi? This is wrong. We are with the farmers and their demands,” the Delhi CM said.
Ahead of the mega rally, authorities had put strict arrangements in place to contain the situation. Security had been stepped up at the UP-Delhi border. Anticipating law and order problems, heavy police force had been deployed.
The farmers, thousands in number, began their agitation on September 23 at Haridwar in Uttarakhand and were moving towards Delhi, many of them on foot, scores sitting atop tractors, buses and raising slogans. Their demands include — complete loan waiver, reduction in electricity tariff and pension to every farmer aged above 60.
