New Delhi: A group of over 200 people threw stones and vandalized tents erected by farmers at the Delhi-Haryana border in Singhu, the epicenter of farmers' protests for over two months. Two police personnel were injured, one of them by a sword. The sudden violence this afternoon at the protest site, which has been tense since the Republic Day violence, prompted the police to use tear gas shells and resort to lathi-charge. Farmers too appealed for calm.
Two people have been detained.
It is unclear how the large group of people managed to enter the site of the farmers' protest despite the area being blocked by the police.
The people who entered the protest site also tried to vandalize other infrastructure such as farmers' washing machines, demanding that the farmers vacate the protest site. Both sides threw stones at each other.
The police were seen trying to keep the vandals away from the protesting farmers.
Two other key border points - Tikri and the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur - have also been placed under heavy security and remain tense.
Shortly after the clashes at the Singhu border, similar scenes were reported from Tikri, another Delhi-Haryana border, where a group of people began opposing the farmers' protest and demanded they vacate the site. The people said they will not let the national flag be "insulted", referring to the Red Fort violence on Republic Day.
Source: NDTV
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