A meeting between farmer leaders and Union ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai will be held on Thursday, according to sources, even as protesting farmers continued to stay put at the two borders of Punjab and Haryana while security personnel fired some tear gas shells on the protesters at the Shambhu border near Ambala.
The Punjab Government is facilitating farmer leaders’ meeting with the Central ministers through video-conferencing, the sources said, adding that farmers want written assurances from the government and it’s being discussed.
Earlier, the Union ministers had two rounds of meeting in Chandigarh with the farmer leaders but the discussions remained inconclusive and the farmers began their protests on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, farmers from Punjab continued to stay put at the two borders of the state and Haryana on Wednesday while security personnel fired some tear gas shells on the protesters at the Shambhu border near Ambala.
As the peasants gather there to resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest, farmer leaders will first hold a meeting before moving ahead with their plan to break multi-layered barricades at the Shambhu border in an attempt to march towards Delhi.
With the farmers from several places in Punjab continuing to pour in to participate in the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, a large number of tractor-trolleys could be seen parked along the national highway on the Punjab side.
The protesting farmers from Punjab plan to make a fresh attempt to break past the multiple layers of barricades at the border with Haryana. The Haryana security personnel lobbed a few tear gas shells on Wednesday morning after some farmers gathered near the barricades at the Shambhu border, the protesters claimed.
While the protesting farmers said they were determined to march towards the national capital, many young farmers have made their tractors ready for removing the multi-layered cemented blocks at the Shambhu border.
They have also made arrangements of water tankers in order to minimise the impact of any tear gas shells lobbed by the Haryana security personnel. The farmers were also carrying water bottles and wet clothes to limit the impact of tear gas shells.
One of the protesters was seen wearing body protective gear along with eye protective safety goggles at the Shambhu border. Many farmers said they sustained injuries and faced difficulties in breathing and irritation in eyes because of the tear gas shells lobbed by the Haryana security personnel on Tuesday.
