Haryana Police Use Water Cannons To Disperse Protesting Farmers Ahead Of Dy CM's Event In Jhajjar (Video Inside)

The fresh incident comes weeks after the Karnal administration and protestors reached an agreement fulfilling the latter’s demand for conducting a probe into the August 28 lathi-charge.

New Delhi: In another faceoff between protesting farmers and Haryana police, the personnel on Thursday used water cannons to disperse protesters who trespassed barricades ahead of Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala's programme, in Jhajjar. 

“At a time when farmers’ crops have been damaged due to rains, Deputy Chief Minister is coming here, instead of meeting them,” a protester said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

In a video shared on Twitter, protestors can be seen climbing over the barricade to move ahead. Following this, police begin using water cannons to disperse the gathering.

Following this, Jhajjar DC Shyam Lal Poonia shared an update wherein he said that “fifteen people have been allowed to protest peacefully”. 

The fresh incident comes weeks after the Karnal administration and protestors reached an agreement fulfilling the latter’s demand for conducting a probe into the August 28 lathi-charge wherein farmers had gathered in large numbers in the area to protest against Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar’s visit and faced police action. 

Meanwhile, in another issue concerning farmers, Haryana BKU (Chaduni) chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni on Thursday announced that farmers will protest outside the houses of MPs, MLAs and other leaders of the ruling BJP-JJP combine in the state if the government fails to begin paddy procurement on October 1.

Chaduni said that the Centre has postponed the paddy procurement from October 1 to October 11.

“We want to warn the Khattar government that they should start procurement from October 1. If they fail to do so, we will lay siege to homes of the BJP-JJP MLAs, MPs and their other leaders,” Chaduni said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

He asked the farmers to take their tractor trollies and unload the crop outside the homes of the BJP-JJP leaders if the government fails to begin procurement on Friday.

The warning came following the Union government’s decision to postpone procurement of kharif paddy in Punjab and Haryana till October 11 as the crop maturity is delayed owing to recent heavy rains.