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New Delhi: Farmers on their tractors move towards Delhi during their rally on Republic Day, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021.
Groups of protesting farmers camping at Singhu and Tikri border points of the national capital broke police barricades on Tuesday morning to force their way into the city. According to officials, security personnel tried to convince the farmers that they have been given permission to hold their tractor parade in Delhi after the Republic Day parade at the Rajpath concludes. But some groups of farmers did not relent and started moving towards the Outer Ring Road breaking police barricades, an official said.
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Red Fort breached, violence galore: How farmers tractor parade turned into a chaotic affair
A tractor march meant to highlight farmers demands dissolved into anarchy on the streets of New Delhi on Tuesday, as hordes of rampaging protesters broke through barriers, fought with police, overturned vehicles and delivered a national insult hoisting a religious flag from the rampart of Red Fort, a privilege reserved for Indiaâs tricolour.
Tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police in multiple places, leading to chaos in well-known landmarks of Delhi and suburbs, amid waves of violence that ebbed and flowed through the day, leaving the farmers two-month peaceful movement in tatters. In a Republic Day like no other, farmers atop tractors, on motorcycles and some on horses, broke barricades to enter the city at least two hours before they were supposed to start the tractor march at noon sanctioned by authorities. Steel and concrete barriers were br
Farmers during their protest against Centre s farm laws. (File photo: PTI)
Farmers, protesting at Delhi borders over the Centre s farm laws, are all geared up to carry out a tractor march on Republic Day on Tuesday. The farmers union reached an
agreement with the Delhi Police on Sunday to carry out the tractor march peacefully. Three routes, originating from Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur border points, have been finalized for the march, a farmer leader said.
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Delhi Police said that the first route will begin from Singhu border and will move from Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar to Bawana. Similarly, 62-km long second route will pass through Nangloi-Najafgarh and Jharoda after starting from Tikri border. The third route will lead to Apsara border and Hapur after starting from Ghazipur. All of these processions will converge at Kundli Manesar Palwal Expressway (KMP).
Farmers Republic Day tractor rally: No headway at Delhi Police-farmer unions meeting
Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav said Delhi Police wanted the farmer leaders to hold their Republic Day tractor rally outside the national capital. PTI January 21, 2021 / 02:16 PM IST
File image: Farmers participate in a tractor rally to protest against the three new farm reform bills at Singhu border near New Delhi on January 7, 2021. (Image: Reuters)
The second round of meeting between the police and farmer unions regarding the proposed January 26 tractor rally by them remained inconclusive on January 21 as the farmers stuck to their demand of taking out the rally on Delhi s busy Outer Ring Road.