8 Farmers Injured In Tear Gas Shelling, Protest March Over MSP Halted

New Delhi: 

Farmers on a ‘Dilli chalo‘ march Friday afternoon – to press home a list of nearly five-year-old demands, including a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Prices, or MSP – were forced to call a temporary halt after tear gas shells were fired by police blocking their path to the national capital.

Eight people were injured, and two others seriously wounded, farmers said, after the clash that took place on National Highway 44, near Shambhu on the Punjab-Haryana border.

“Police used their full force against us. We were quite disciplined and were holding the protest peacefully. We knew we wouldn’t be able to fight the might of the force used against us,” farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher told reporters, “So we have called back the protest for today.”