Farmers March to Delhi Live Updates – Clashes with Police as Barricades Breached

Farmers, mainly from Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh, are marching towards Delhi this Tuesday, demanding the government meet their needs, including a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops.

Live Updates on Delhi Farmers’ Protest: The march follows a second pivotal meeting between farmer union leaders and Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Arjun Munda yesterday evening, which concluded without any agreement, leaving both sides without a resolution.

 

Their demands include a guaranteed MSP, implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pensions for farmers and farm laborers, cancellation of farm debts, dropping of legal charges, justice for the Lakhimpur Kheri incident victims, restoration of the 2013 Land Acquisition Act, exiting the World Trade Organization, and compensation for families of farmers who died in previous protests, among others.

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The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have announced that the march to Delhi will commence on Tuesday following discussions between farmer union leaders and the government.

Live Updates on Farmers’ Protest, March to Delhi: Tensions rise at the Shambhu border as police efforts to block protestors from entering Delhi escalate.

The farmers attempted to dismantle the multi-layered barricades with their tractors and makeshift weapons. Several were detained by the Haryana police as they advanced towards Delhi on Tuesday.

Footage from the scene shows farmers scattering into adjacent fields as the police resort to tear gas and water cannons to break up the gathering.

In a significant confrontation, farmers in Haryana’s Kurukshetra forcefully removed a concrete barricade.