Farmers Protest Live Updates: 'Delhi Chalo' march suspended after tear gas injuries, farmers to resume tread on December 8

Police arrested 77 farmers on Wednesday during a protest over land acquisition compensation. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for another march to Delhi on Friday via the Yamuna and Noida-Greater Noida expressways, with farmers demanding higher compensation and residential plots for their acquired land. Meanwhile, farmer groups protesting at the Shambhu border of Punjab and Haryana since February announced on Thursday that 101 activists are set to either march to Delhi or surrender to Haryana Police on Friday. The protest aims to push for a legal guarantee on minimum support prices (MSP) for their produce. Stay with TOI for more updates:

07:36 (IST) Dec 06

77 farmers jailed in second police crackdown this week

Beginning Wednesday night, police launched another crackdown and arrested 77 farmers, some of whom were among the 123 protesters released from jail just hours earlier, to stop them from organising another demonstration. In response, Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of farmer outfits, called for another march to Delhi via Yamuna and Noida-Greater Noida expressways on Friday. The farmers were arrested in two batches. Thirty-four farmer leaders who had planned to camp overnight at the starting point of the Yamuna Expressway, called the ‘zero point', in Greater Noida were taken into custody and the protest site was cleared late on Wednesday night.

07:35 (IST) Dec 06

Delhi Farmers Protest Live: Kisan Mazdoor Morcha and Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) have named their latest attempt to cross over to Haryana and then walk towards the national capital as ‘Dilli Kooch’ (charge to Delhi).

07:35 (IST) Dec 06

Farmers Protest Live: In Feb this year, the two groups had made two attempts to cross over to Haryana and move to Delhi — Feb 13 and 21. However, at the time, they had planned to use tractors and break through the barricades. This time around, they plan to walk and offer their arrest to Haryana Police if they are stopped. Among several demands, their key demand is a legal guarantee to minimum support price on their produce.

07:35 (IST) Dec 06

Delhi Farmers Protest Live: Farmers from west UP revived their demonstration this week after talks with the district administration and the three development authorities – Noida Authority, GNIDA and YEIDA -- failed. For years, farmers have been demanding higher compensation and 10% abadi (developed residential) plots in return for land acquired from them by the three authorities to carry out several projects in Noida. Protesters gathered in thousands on Nov 2 and marched towards Delhi but were blocked by police on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway close to the Chilla border. Denied entry into the capital, they called off the march by the evening but some of them stayed behind at the Dalit Prerna Sthal near the border to continue the protest.

Police arrested 77 farmers protesting land acquisition compensation on Wednesday. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha called for another march to Delhi via Yamuna and Noida-Greater Noida expressways on Friday. Farmers demand increased compensation and residential plots for acquired land.

Farm groups protesting on the Shambhu border of Punjab and Haryana since Feb on Thursday said they have issued a list of 101 activists who will either march to Delhi or surrender to Haryana Police on Friday to demand a legal guarantee to minimum support price (MSP) on their produce.

The list, released by SKM (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, mentions each activist’s name, his father’s name, phone number, address and union affiliation.

On Thursday, more farmers reached Shambhu and Khanauri borders from various districts of Punjab. Haryana administration had on Wednesday pasted posters at Shambhu, asking farmers to reconsider their plan to move towards Delhi as restrictions are in place.

Three Punjab Police station house officers (SHOs) were among the many injured when protesting farmers seeking suitable compensation for land being used in Lelewala village of Bathinda to lay a natural gas pipeline from Mehsana in Gujarat to Bathinda, clashed with police in Mansa district on Thursday.

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