Farmers protest: Barricades removed, tear gas shells fired at Shambhu border

By our Special Correspondent

A ‘jatha’ (group) of farmers from Punjab under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha plans to march from the Shambhu border to the Parliament in Delhi on Friday, December 6. Their demands are a legal guarantee for the minimum support price for crops, no hikes in electricity tariffs, a debt waiver, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, and justice for the victims of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri in 2021 and during the farmers' protests in 2020-21.