Tractor Parade: Police Use Lathicharge, Teargas On Farmers Contingent From Singhu Border

Police and farmers have clashed as police used tear gas to disperse farmers in Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. The tractor rally of the farmer from the Singhu border reached here.

New Delhi| Today, on the occasion of Republic Day, farmers are taking out a ‘tractor parade’ in Delhi against all three agricultural laws after getting permission from Delhi Police. For this, farmers have started breaking barricades erected by police at all places and have started entering Delhi borders. Farmers on the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur border have broken barricades planted by the Delhi Police and entered Delhi. Similar scenes are also being seen in Faridabad in Gurugram.

For the much anticipated Tractor Parade, the farmers have cleaned the tractors. Tricolors and banners have been placed. Thousands of armed security personnel have been deployed at several borders in Rajpath and the national capital in view of the Republic Day celebrations and the proposed tractor parade of farmers.

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Farmers’ unions opposing the three disputed agricultural laws had said that their parade would not enter central Delhi and would begin only after the conclusion of the official parade to be held on Republic Day. The unions claimed that around two lakh tractors were expected to take part in their parade and that it would depart from the Singhu border, Tikari border and Ghazipur (UP gate).

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Meanwhile, police and farmers have clashed as police used tear gas to disperse farmers in Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. The tractor rally of the farmer from the Singhu border reached here. In Anand Vihar, farmers were also lathi-charged. On the other hand, some reports quote police as saying that Nihang Sikhs tried to attack the police with swords. At Pandav Nagar, farmers tried to bulldoze a temporary police camp with tractor, police alleges.

Farmers are angry with the police’s repeated change in statements in Faridabad about the tractor parade. Farmer leader Shiv Kumar Sharma Kakaji said that after entering two kilometers in Delhi, the rally will return to Atoha.