Delhi Chalo:Farmers force their way to Delhi after clash with cops

After a two-hour clash on a narrow bridge near the border between Congress-ruled Punjab and Haryana, which saw thousands of farmers flung barricades into a river and throw bricks at cops and physically push vehicles, farmers managed to enter Haryana as they continued their ”Delhi Chalo” march against the Centre’s new farm laws.

Haryana, ruled by the BJP, has been using heavy force to try and block farmers from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Kerala and Punjab making their way from Punjab towards Delhi in tractors and on foot for their two-day “Delhi Chalo” protest march against new farm laws that they fear will reduce their earnings and give more power to large retailers.

The Delhi government has refused to allow any rally in the city, citing the coronavirus outbreak. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, however, criticised the police for using water cannons on the protesters. “The farmers are protesting against all three laws by the centre.

Instead of taking this bill back, the farmers are being stopped from protesting peacefully. Water cannons are being used on them. Such kind of injustice on farmers is not fair. Peaceful protest is their constitutional right,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted this morning.

Delhi’s borders at Gurugram and Faridabad have been sealed and metro services have been affected.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying, instead of listening to the voices of the farmers the BJP government is using water cannons to disperse them in cold weather.

“Instead of listening to the voice of the farmers who are protesting against the laws, that snatched the support price from them, the BJP government uses water cannon to disperse them in cold weather. Everything is being taken away from the farmers while the capitalists are being given banks, airport, railway stations and loan waiver,” the Congress leader tweeted