Image Source : PTI Farmers take part in a tractor rally after breaking police barricades at Singhu border, throughout their ongoing protest in opposition to Centres farm reform legal guidelines, on the event of 72nd Republic Day, close to Bhalswa landfill website in New Delhi.
Some teams of farmers began going again to their respective sit-in websites on Tuesday night after hours of chaos throughout their tractor parade in opposition to the farm legal guidelines, however 1000’s of different protesters had been nonetheless in a number of areas, together with ITO, Nangloi and Mukarba Chowk, of the nationwide capital.
Hundreds of farmers had been sitting on the ITO crossing and plenty of, who entered the town from the Singhu border protest website, had been transferring in direction of Delhi’s Outer Ring Road. Farmers had been seen transferring again in batches to Tikri and Ghazipur border protest websites on Tuesday night.
Earlier, wielding sticks and golf equipment and holding the tricolour and union flags, tens of 1000’s of farmers atop tractors broke obstacles, clashed with police and entered the town from varied factors to put siege to the Red Fort and climb the flagpole on Republic Day on Tuesday.
A protesting farmer died after his tractor overturned at ITO throughout the farmers’ tractor parade on Tuesday, police mentioned. The farmers draped the physique within the tricolour and stored it on the ITO crossing, not permitting the police to ship it for autopsy.
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“We have lastly gained entry into Delhi after 4 months — two in Punjab and two on the Delhi border. The temper is obvious, now we have come right here to remain.
There’s no level in going again to the place we began,” Amarjeet Singh, 62, a protesting farmer, mentioned.
The Delhi Police resorted to baton cost and firing of tear fuel shells on farmers at Nangloi Chowk in West Delhi once they tried to deviate from the pre-agreed path to enter the nationwide capital throughout their protest.
The agitating farmers broke cement barricades at Nangloi Chowk and Mukarba Chowk following which the police used heavy tear fuel shells to disperse the unruly crowd, an official mentioned.
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