
Farmers shout slogans as they clash with policemen while protesting at the border between Delhi and Haryana. Thousands of agitating farmers faced tear gas and baton charge from police after they resumed their march to the capital against new farm laws that they fear will give more power to corporations and reduce their earnings. While trying to march towards New Delhi, the farmers, using their tractors, cleared concrete blockades, walls of shipping containers and horizontally parked trucks after police had set them up as barricades and dug trenches on highways to block roads leading to the capital.

Thousands of farmers, who entered into Delhi with their tractors, gathered at the Red Fort complex.

Protesting farmers, who took part in tractor rallies on the expressways surrounding Delhi, emphasised that it was only a “dress rehearsal” for the parallel parade that they plan to hold within the capital on Republic Day.

The tractor parade on January 26, 2021 that was to highlight the demands of the farmer unions to repeal three new Agri laws dissolved into anarchy on the streets of the city as tens of thousands of protesters broke through barriers, fought with police, overturned vehicles and hoisted a religious flag from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort.

Farmers protesting against the farm laws by the Government of India had demanded permission for a tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day. Delhi Police, while granting permission had identified a route for these protesters and the farmers' unions on their part had promised to keep the entire act peaceful. But things went bad as the protestors in the rally turned violent.