The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday alleged that water tankers sent by the Delhi government were not allowed to reach the farmers' protest site at the Singhu border.
Earlier on Friday, AAP had said that Minister Satyendar Jain and Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman Raghav Chadha, who is an AAP MLA, would go to the Singhu border. At 1pm, the AAP Twitter handle informed both Jain and Chadha were waiting at the Singhu border with the water tankers. The AAP handle alleged, ".@SatyendarJain & @raghav_chadha are still waiting at Singhu Border with water tankers. BJP Govt is denying water to farmers who feed the nation.”
The AAP handle shared an image of Chadha talking to policemen.
On Thursday, AAP said farmers' union leader Rakesh Tikait asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to provide water and other facilities at the Ghazipur border after the local administration stopped supplies.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia visited the Ghazipur protest site and met Tikait on Friday.
Kejriwal had announced on Friday that AAP fully backed the ongoing farmers protests.
Responding to a tweet from Tikait, Kejriwal tweeted, "Rakesh ji, we are fully with the farmers. Your demands are valid. It is completely wrong to discredit the farmers' movement, calling the farmers as traitors and making false cases against the farmer leaders who have been agitating peacefully for so many days."
More farmers moving in from Haryana
Meanwhile, several farmers from parts of Haryana on Friday decided to move towards Delhi borders to join the ongoing agitation against agriculture laws and held protests against lookout notices to peasant leaders and the Ghaziabad administration's ultimatum to vacate the Ghazipur protest site.
The farmers claimed that issuing the lookout notices and asking the farmers to vacate the site will not weaken the ongoing agitation against the Centre's new farm laws.
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A number of farmers from Jind, Rohtak, Kaithal, Hisar, Bhiwani and Sonipat will be heading towards various protest sites at Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur, farmer leaders from Haryana claimed.
At the protest site at the Uttar Pradesh Gate in Ghazipur bordering Delhi, Rakesh Tikait broke down while speaking to the media on Thursday evening.
He alleged that "injustice" was being meted out to the farmers by the government by not repealing the new farm laws. "We cannot tolerate a senior farmers leader being pushed to this situation. We are all united and our stir will continue till we force the government repeal the farm laws," said a protesting farmer near Rohtak's Madina toll plaza on Friday.
(With PTI inputs)