The Punjab government has taken action against protesting farmers at the Punjab-Haryana border. Bulldozers demolished tents and barricades were removed. The AAP government claims the farmers should protest in Delhi, not Punjab.
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00:00Shifting focus now, high drama at the Punjab-Haryana borders just a day after the centre's talks
00:06with farmers over MSP guarantee went inconclusive.
00:10The Punjab government cracked down on protesting farmers at the Shambhu and the Khanauri borders
00:15while border security has been ramped up.
00:18Protesting farmers were detained, farmers' tents demolished by bulldozers and barricades
00:23at the Punjab-Haryana border removed by the Haryana police.
00:27At least 700 farmers were detained in late-night action at the border.
00:30Over 3,000 Punjab police personnel were deployed to remove the farmers and their tents.
00:36The AAP government claims the farmers were removed to clear Punjab's roads and to bring
00:40employment to Punjab, claiming since the farmers are fighting against the centre, they should
00:44protest in Delhi, not in Punjab.
00:47Former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh has in fact slammed the centre and the Aam Aadmi
00:53Party both in Punjab, claiming that the farmers were betrayed after their talks with the centre
00:59and that they were fraudulently arrested.
01:02We're getting in details of the farmers' protests in Punjab and the roads have now been cleared.
01:09Chief Minister of Punjab says that the farmers are protesting against the centre, so they
01:13should be protesting in Delhi and not in Punjab.
01:16A series of reactions coming in.
01:18Let's take a listen.
01:19The farmers have been arrested.
01:22Yes, ma'am, yesterday there was a meeting with the centre and after the meeting, the
01:31farmers have been arrested.
01:32The Punjab government has taken action.
01:34The Punjab government and the Modi government have met.
01:36We are going to the court, but God should not do this.
01:42I am the son of a farmer.
01:46I am a farmer.
01:47It is their duty to give us time.
01:51How can they arrest us like this?
01:54They are harming our livelihoods.
01:58Who will take care of us?
02:00Will the government do it?
02:01They have beaten us so badly.
02:03They broke our tractor.
02:05They have harassed us a lot.
02:07This is not good for the government.
02:10They have beaten us so badly.
02:12Next time, no one will vote for them in Punjab.
02:16It was their plan.
02:17This was their plan.
02:20They wanted to mislead us.
02:22Both of them said that today, the entire Punjab and other areas of the state will go
02:38against the deputy commissioner and his atrocities.
02:43The women farmers who are protesting in front of the deputy commissioners,
02:49they are coming from both our forums.
02:52If the government continues to run the Dhaman Chakar like this,
03:00then our movement, our wave, whatever it is,
03:06our movement, whatever it is,
03:09it will be accelerated.
03:11The farmers' protest that was going on at the Shambhu border for a long time,
03:15today, in the presence of the duty magistrates,
03:18it has been cleared by the police.
03:20After giving proper warning, it was given to them,
03:22and after that, all this has been cleared.
03:24Some people had given their willingness that we want to go home,
03:28so they were sent home in buses.
03:30And in addition, the structures and vehicles here are being moved.
03:42All action here in Shambhu border.
03:44The farmers may have been removed from here,
03:46but what is on is the process of removing these concrete barricades.
03:52And remember, what you hear behind me is that particular drilling machine,
03:56and remember the JVC and the others have been brought in
03:59to lift those heavy concrete slabs.
04:03They were put in place to ensure that the farmers in tractors and trolleys
04:08could not march towards Delhi.
04:10From 99 days onwards, what we see is the farmers have been evicted in a surprise move,
04:16and this is where it seems that they were already in talks with the government,
04:21and that's the day that the government thought that they could actually corner the leaders,
04:28and that is how a swift action was taken,
04:31first picking up and detaining the top leaders,
04:34and then thereafter action both at Shambhu and Kanori.
04:37Now hundreds of farmers have been detained,
04:39but is this going to go down well?
04:41Because many indicate that Punjab was suffering,
04:44especially as far as economics is concerned.
04:47Thousands of crows down the drain.
04:49It's also because the key arterial road, the Shambhu border, itself was blocked.
04:54Now the attempt really is to open up the side roads,
04:59because the flyover has the main strength of trolleys and tractors.
05:05But what is really going to happen now is also about how politics is heating up in Punjab.
05:11Just the BJP, who was initially blamed for not allowing farmers to enter Delhi,
05:17are the ones who are now training guns at the Aam Aadmi Party.
05:21At the Shambhu border, where the Punjab Police is taking action against the farmers,
05:25we can see how bulldozers are taking action,
05:28and now some farmers are taking back tractor trolleys themselves.
05:33You can see that the JCP machines are constantly running.
05:37The temporary structures, the temporary arrangements that the farmers had made to live here,
05:43are all being demolished.
05:45And the trolleys that are installed,
05:47the farmers are voluntarily bringing back the tractors,
05:50and have started taking their trolleys back.
05:53And you can see in these pictures,
05:55how this big action is taking place at the Shambhu border,
06:00and this is a bulldozer action,
06:02This is the Amritsar-Delhi highway, where we are standing.
06:04It had been blocked by the farmers for the past year,
06:07and today the farmers have been detained.
06:09And now, you can see how the bulldozers are demolishing their structures,
06:16so that this highway can be cleared,
06:19and the commuters can travel on this highway again.
06:23And this is a big action by the Punjab government and the Punjab Police,
06:28which is taking place against the farmers.
06:30These temporary structures, where the farmers had been living for the past year,
06:34are now being demolished.
06:36The trolleys are being cleared from here,
06:38so that the Amritsar-Delhi highway can be cleared.