Police fire tear gas shells as farmers resume ‘Delhi Chalo’ march
The protesting farmers have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow them to hold peaceful protests in Delhi.
The protesting farmers have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow them to hold peaceful protests in Delhi.
Today’s scene followed after the Pentagon said that order was being restored at the site and evacuation flights from Afghanistan would be accelerating. Zaki Anwari, the footballer who played for Afghanistan's national youth team, fell to his death on Monday while he was trying hard to cling on to the body of a US C-17 military plane to escape the Taliban regime in Afghanistan
The organisations led by DYFI and the SFI today turned the city streets into a sea of red flags and red cards as they marched towards Nabanna. Two large processions from Howrah and Sealdah gathered at College Street from where they headed towards Nabanna
The agitating farmers, comprising mostly youths, earlier broke through the barricades set up by police near Ghazipur entry point on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and Singhu and Tikri points on Delhi-Haryana border.
On Thursday, around 300 farmers had forced their way past the barricades at Rajasthan-Haryana border and entered Rewari. On Sunday, around 50 farmers from Rajasthan followed them and the police fired tear gas shells.
