Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor took a dig at the Modi government over its handling of the farmers protest . The three- time Lok Sabha MP, while speaking to ANI said , “It’s a democratic right of the farmers to protest and come and be heard in the National capital. I don’t think the border with China is fortified the way this city is fortified. The government should have learnt a lesson from the previous farmers’ agitation- consult the stakeholders. Last time it took a year-long agitation before the government surrendered and withdrew…,”.
Earlier, Haryana Police lobbed tear gas shells at farmers from Punjab at Shambhu border between the two states as thousands of protesters stayed put there on Wednesday, the second day of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march.
There was a similar standoff at Data Singhwala-Khanauri border in Haryana’s Jind district, with Haryana Police barricades stopping farmers from travelling to Delhi on their tractor-trolleys.
With the farmers from several places in Punjab continuing to pour in at the Shambhu border 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.
