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Protesting farmers to be allowed to enter Delhi: Police commissioner

Allowed to protest at the Nirankari Samagam Ground in Burari area

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With farmers unmoved by the use of force, teargas, drones and water cannons, the Delhi Police Commissioner on Friday has signaled a softening of stance by the Centre and has permitted farmers to enter the national capital and protest at the Nirankari Samagam Ground in the Burari area, provided they demonstrate peacefully. "Protesting farmers will be allowed to enter the national capital. They will have the permission to protest at the Nirankari Samagam Ground in the Burari area," ANI quoted Delhi police commissioner as saying. 

The commissioner has appealed to the farmers to maintain order in the national capital. The protesting farmers, a majority from Punjab, are protesting against the three contentious agricultural laws passed by the Centre in September. They have been demanding that the new laws should be repealed.

"We have been allowed safe passage to Delhi," claimed Krantikari Kisan Union president Darshan Pal. He said that officials of the Union home ministry had allowed them a place at Burari in Delhi to hold the agitation.

Bharatiya Kisan Union (Rajewal) president Balbir Singh Rajewal said that farmers were headed to the Burari ground. 

Earlier, farmers had demanded that they be allowed to hold their protest at the Ramlila ground but the Delhi Police had denied the request.

Despite heavy security deployment, groups of agitating farmers from Punjab and Haryana reached near two Delhi borders on Friday morning after breaking police barricades on the way as part of their protest march against the Centre's new farm laws.

The Delhi Police has enhanced deployment of security personnel, stationed sand-laden trucks and water cannons and used barbed wire for fencing at the Singhu and Tikri border points (Delhi-Haryana border) to prevent the protesters from entering the city.

The Centre has invited several Punjab farm bodies for talks in Delhi on December 3. 

(With PTI inputs)

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