RECENT REPORTS OF POLICE LATHICHARGING FARMERS
Farmer organisations led by Bharatiya Kisan Union, on 10 September, had blocked the national highway at Pipli in the Kurukshetra district of Haryana. The farmers were protesting the Centre’s farm ordinances, now passed by the Parliament, which they say are “anti-farmer”.
Police lathicharged when some farmers coming from Shahbad area pushed their way into the site of the rally. The agitating farmers also broke window panes of a fire brigade vehicle and pelted stones on the police.
The district administration finally relented and lifted the barriers outside the rally site to allow thousands of protesters to reach their destination.
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