Gandhi said the government should immediately implement all the demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP, fixing MSP at one-and-a-half times the comprehensive cost of cultivation as per the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission, loan waiver, etc.The country will be prosperous only when the farmers are prosperous, he added.Earlier in the day, a ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers began to march towards the national capital from their protest site at the Shambhu border but was stopped a few metres away by multi-layered barricading erected by Haryana security personnel.As the group reached the barricades, security personnel lobbed multiple tear gas shells to disperse the protesting farmers and force them to retreat to their protest site.Covering their eyes and mouths, several protesting farmers rushed to cover the tear gas shells with wet jute bags to counter the smoke.
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