Delhi Chalo march, tear gas and water cannon used against farmers

Haryana security personnel fired teargas shells and used a water cannon to disperse a group of protesting farmers from heading towards Delhi at the Shambhu border point on Saturday.

A few farmers who were injured and taken to a nearby hospital in ambulances stationed at the



protest site, officials said.

The action came after a ‘jatha’ (group) of 101 farmers, who resumed their foot march to Delhi shortly after 12 noon on Saturday from the Shambhu protest site on the Punjab-Haryana border, reached the barricades put up by the Haryana security personnel.