Another batch of farmers march to Delhi defying tear gas (2nd Ld)

Chandigarh, Nov 27 : Bracing tear gas and water cannons for the second day on Friday, another batch of protesting farmers, numbering in thousands, from the interiors of Punjab breached the massive blockades comprising huge boulders, barbed fences and mounds of earth on the Bathinda-Dabwali road to enter Haryana on their onward march to Delhi for a planned protest against the new Central farm laws.
The farmers were led by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta-Ugrahan, which opted to stay back at the Khanauri border in Punjab’s Sangrur district on Friday. It said over 100,000 farmers are expected to reach the border of Delhi in the night.
Simultaneously, hundreds of thousands of farmers belonging to the Kisan Sangharsh Committee started their journey from Amritsar city towards Delhi via Haryana.
It’s state general secretary, Sarwan Singh Pandher, said farmers from Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Batala and Gurdaspur districts are heading towards Delhi.
The farmers are protesting against the farm laws as they feel that these laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporate entities.
Riding on more than 4,000 tractor-trailers and nearly 1,500 buses, besides cars and motorcycles, the farmers, comprising women and children, belonging to the BKU Ekta-Ugrahan, started marching towards Delhi after breaking barriers at Dabwali and Jind in Haryana.