The farmers suspended their march to Delhi on Friday after some of them suffered injuries when security personnel fired teargas shells.
Farmers protest: The security personnel at Haryana’s Shambhu border lobbed tear gas shells at protesting farmers on Sunday amid a disagreement over the list of 101 people permitted to pass through the police’s barricading.
A group of 101 farmers left the Shambhu border, where they had been camping since their first attempt to march to the capital was foiled in February, to press their various demands, including a legal guarantee for the minimum support price (MSP).
As the protesting farmers neared multi-layered barricades at the Shambhu border, the police fired shells to disperse them. The tear gas shells forced the farmers, some of whom had covered their faces and were wearing protective eyewear, to get back a few metres.
A police officer at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border, however, told news agency ANI that the protesters were not on the list. They didn’t let the police identify them and were “moving as a mob”.
We will first identify them, and then we can allow them to proceed. We have a list of the names of 101 farmers, and they are not those people. He said they are not letting us identify them; they are moving ahead as a mob. Meanwhile, a protesting farmer told the news agency that the police’s list was wrong.
