The farmers tents, erected at the Delhi-Haryana border in Singhu, were subject to stones being thrown at them by the villagers of the area.
In the scuffle that ensued between the two groups, a police officer was injured with a sword in the violence.
Police had to use tear gas shells and resort to lathi-charge.
Farmers’ washing machines etc ere damaged as the gathered crowd asked the farmers to vacate the protest site.
Shortly after the clashes at the Singhu border, similar scenes were reported from Tikri, another Delhi-Haryana border. Angry people said they will not let the national flag be “insulted”, referring to the Red Fort violence on Republic Day.
At the Ghazipur border in east Delhi, Rakesh Tikait’s Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has called a “Mahapanchayat” or meeting today amid a huge backlash over Tuesday’s violence during their tractor rally.
