Farmers Resume ‘Delhi Chalo’ Protest Today Seeking MSP Guarantee & Loan Waivers | Key Points

Farmers Resume Protest: Two days after calling off the ‘Dilli Chalo’ agitation, farmers are planning to try to enter Delhi again from Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana to press for their demands which include MSP guarantee and loan waivers.

On Friday, December 6, 101 farmers of a ‘jatha’ started marching towards Delhi from Shambhu border protest site but were stopped a few meters away by the multi layered barricading put up by Haryana police. The farmers called off the protest after several protesters were injured in tear gas shelling by police at Shambhu border.

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Farmers are demanding legal guarantee or MSP from the central government. Delhi Chalo march will resume today after Punjab farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said on Friday that if government doesn’t talk to them, they will continue the march.

The farmer leaders however said that the march will be held again on December 8 if Centre doesn’t talk to them by tomorrow.

101 farmers who were part of the jatha “marjeevras” (someone willing to die for a cause) on Friday started marching towards Delhi to press the Centre for legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops. Besides MSP, farmers are also demanding farm loan waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases (against farmers) and “justice” for the victims of 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

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After a few hours of march, farmers called off the protest for the day as some of them were injured due to tear gas shelling at Punjab-Haryana border. A farmer leader said five to six farmers were injured due to the tear gas shelling. Sarwan Singh Pandher later announced to call off the march for the day and said the injured farmers were taken to hospital.

Due to security concerns, Delhi police have set up barricades and installed nails at the Shambhu Border for Sunday's planned protest.

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