Protesting farmers allowed to enter Delhi with Police escorts
After hours of lathi-charges, water cannons and tear gas shells aimed at the ‘Delhi Chalo’ farmers protest at the Haryana Delhi border. The Delhi Police has now permitted the protesting farmers to enter the capital city New Delhi, and the police will be escorting the farmers.
The farmer’s organization said they have ‘been given safe passage’ into Delhi and have been allowed to protest at a ground in Burari near the capital’s outskirts.
The farmers are protesting against the three farm laws which are primarily aimed at introducing changes by eliminating the middlemen and enhancing farmers earnings by permitting them to sell their produce anywhere in the country.
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