Chandigarh, Feb. 13 -- As hundreds of protesting farmers, mainly from Punjab, were stopped on Tuesday, February 13, at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border to prevent them from reaching Delhi, Haryana Police fired tear gas to disperse them.

The farmers have been seeking a law on minimum support price (MSP) as one of their key demands.

Heavy security has been deployed and blockades erected at all borders in Haryana to prevent the marching protesters from moving ahead.

Even a drone has been deployed to drop tear gas shells on the protesters. Some of the empty shells, collected by protesters and shown to the media on the spot, expired in 2022.

Earlier in the day, thousands of farmers, led by over 200 unions under the banner of Samyukta Kisa...