Capitol Hill second in India: Agitating farmers enter Red Fort, wave their very own flag (VIDEO)
New Delhi: In a redux of America’s Capitol Hill second, India’s iconic and historic monument was taken over by the unruly and violent farmer protestors. The protesting farmers deviated from their designated route and entered Red Fort after clashing with police at ITO.
Many waved their very own flags whereas hoisted two flags on the monument’s ramparts. A protestor went up the ramparts of the historic Seventeenth-century monument and raised a flag he was carrying on the place the place the Tricolour is hoisted.
According to visuals doing spherical on social media, protesters had been seen going up the mast on the ramparts of the historic Seventeenth-century monument and hoisting flags on the place the place the Tricolour is hoisted.
The crowd swelled on the monument as some protesting farmers and ‘Nihangs’ (conventional Sikh warriors) had been seen getting into the Red Fort and hoisting a flag from the employees from which prime minister unfurls the tricolour on Independence Day.
#WATCH A protestor hoists a flag from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi#FarmLaws #RepublicDay pic.twitter.com/Mn6oeGLrxJ
— ANI (@ANI) January 26, 2021
They lastly mounted two completely different flags on the publish, which Delhi Police personnel tried to convey down however failed. Several folks together with police personnel suffered accidents throughout the conflict between protesting farmers and police.
Groups of farmers had been additionally seen vandalizing public property and concentrating on police personnel deployed for Republic Day safety.
Farmers have been protesting on the completely different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 in opposition to the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.