Devesh Mishra
Several Groups of protesting farmers on Tuesday have entered New Delhi after they breached the Police barricades near Singhu border where farmers have been protesting for the past sixty days.
Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that early morning near Singhu as the farmers tried to march peacefully ahead towards Delhi, the Delhi Police cane charged people resulting in a confrontation. “Some of the farmers tried to speak to the Policemen deployed out there, but others marched ahead and started beating the farmers at the Singhu protest site,” a farmer Ramandeep Singh told The Kashmiriyat.
He said that when people spotted some of the farmers rounded up by Police, others marched ahead resulting in a confrontation and as the word spread, People broke through the barricades. ‘There was no plan of an early march, but the confrontation lead to the farmers moving towards Delhi earlier than the scheduled time,” Ramandeep said.
The Police however has said that the Farmers resorted to attacking the Police personnel and even vandalizing a bus near ITO.
During the confrontation at ITO, where several thousand farmers were marching ahead, the Police used Force including tear smoke shells. “One farmer was hit with a bullet and after that, his tractor turned turtle,” Gurutej Singh told The Kahsmiriyat.
At the Ghazipur similar chaos spread when the police resorted to lathi-charge and tear gas to control the protesters after they breached the barricades.
Pertinently the tractors rally will mark the completion of two months of protest against the Centre’s farm laws.
The Farmer leaders have announced a plan to march on foot to Parliament on February 1, the day the Union Budget will be presented.