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New Delhi: Tear gas was fired at farmers gathered at Shambhu on the Haryana-Punjab border Friday afternoon during their \u2018Dilli chalo\u2019 march to press home various demands, including a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price, or MSP, waiver of farm loan debts, and protection from increased power tariffs.<\/p>\n
Visuals shared by news agency IANS showed chaotic scenes at a police barricade across National Highway 44. In the 73-second video white smoke from tear gas canisters enveloped protesting farmers.<\/p>\n
As the video pans out, rolls of barbed wire can also be seen and the gassed farmers are seen pulling back from the barricade. An elderly farmer, affected by the tear gas, is attended to by fellow-protesters.<\/p>\n
Shortly before the farmers began their march, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told Parliament the Narendra Modi government is committed to purchasing \u2018 produce at MSP.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to assure the House\u2026 all produce of farmers will be purchased at Minimum Support Price. This is the Modi government and (we will) fulfil Modiji\u2019s guarantee,\u201d Mr Chouhan said, also taking the opportunity for a dig at the Congress, referring to his \u201cfriends from the other side\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026they said, on record, they cannot accept the MS Swaminathan Commission recommendations\u2026 especially on paying 50 per cent more than cost price,\u201d he said, declaring the government is already buying paddy, wheat, jowar, soyabean at 50 per cent over cost of production from three years ago.<\/p>\n
Over 100 farmers set out for today\u2019s march, but ran immediately into multi-layered police barricades on National Highway 44, triggering a tense stand-off. Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed a small army of farmers waving flags and chanting slogans, gathering in front of metal police barriers.<\/p>\n
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