Haryana Police on Wednesday used water cannons after Lok Insaaf Party workers, who were taking out a bike rally from Punjab to Delhi to protest against the farm bills, tried to jump over barricades on the interstate border near Ambala on Wednesday.
The police said it had warned the LIP workers not to cross the barricades at Shambhu village and denied permission for movement of a large group of protesters due to the restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic. A tense situation prevailed at the border stretch for some time as the LIP workers, led by party leaders Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Singh Bains, remained adamant to move on the national highway to Delhi.
The spot where the LIP workers tried to enter Haryana lies near Ambala city on the Ambala-Rajpura-Ludhiana national highway. The police had sealed the area near the Shambhu border and had closed a stretch in view of the protest. A large number of Ambala police personnel had been deployed on the interstate to stop the protesters from entering Haryana. The agitators tried to break the barricades a number of times, but were stopped by the police.
After over three hours of protest at the site, the agitators dispersed by the evening.