After police removed barricades at around 1 am, farmers entered the national capital riding their tractors and trolleys
After putting up hours of fight to get an entry inside the national capital, protesting farmers ended their march at the Kisan Ghat on Wednesday.
The Delhi Police removed the barricades at around 1 am to allow the farmers, who were stopped Tuesday at UP Gate on the Uttar Pradesh-Delhi border during the Kisan Kranti Yatra, to enter the city, a senior police official said. The farmers entered the national capital riding their tractors and trolleys and proceeded towards Kisan Ghat.
Within hours, thousands of farmers gathered at Kisan Ghat, the memorial of renowned farmer leader and former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, which is located just adjacent to Raj Ghat between the banks of Yamuna river and Mahatma Gandhi Road and offered tributes at the memorial.
By 5 am the farmers had started return journey to their homes in Rajasthan, Haryana, UP, Madhya Pradesh.
Bharat Kisan Union leader Pawan Khatana said that none of the farmers participating in the agitation is in Delhi, however, several of them, including BKU chief Naresh Singh Tikait are staying put near the UP-Delhi border — the spot for Tuesday's clash with security men.
"Our main objective was to get our issues highlighted, which has happened. Now it is for the government to decide what it wants to do. The farmers have done their work. If they agree to our demands, well and good. Otherwise, during elections they (politicians) will only have to approach us (for votes) and not the other way round," Khatana said.
On Tuesday, Chaos reigned supreme at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border as 35,000 protesting farmers tried to enter the Capital. The peasants clashed with policemen while protesting against the Centre's "indifference" towards their plight.
Although the government conceded into some of their demands in the evening, the farmers refused to budge as their main demands were not met.
Thousands of farmers protested as part of the Kisan Kranti Padyatra demanding loan waiver, subsidised electricity and fuel, pension for farmers above 60 and implementation of the MSP as per the production cost approved by the Swaminathan Commission. The contentious issue is what is the production cost that a farmer incurs and how can the minimum support price be 50 per cent more than it. Mandarins have obfuscated the production cost in such a manner that the farmer rarely makes money on MSP.
The Kisan Kranti March was started by BKU chieftain Tikait at Haridwar on September 23. Thousands of farmers joined the protest and descended at Kisan Ghat. They were, however, stopped at the border by Delhi police. The police resorted to lathi-charge, water cannon and tear gas when the farmers tried to break the security blockades and gain access into Delhi.
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