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Farmer leaders address a gathering during their ongoing protest, at Delhi’s Tikri border, a day after the farmers’ tractor rally turned violent | Photo: PTI

6:34 PM

Rajasthan farmers take out tractor rally into neighbouring Haryana

Farmers who have been agitating at Shahjahanpur in Alwar near Rajasthan-Haryana border took out a tractor rally to Manesar (Haryana) on Tuesday. Former CPI(M) MLA Amra Ram said hundreds of tractors and other vehicles participated in the rally. Our rally from Shahjahanpur to Manesar was peaceful and it received a good response from people. The rally started at around 11 am and concluded in the evening, PTI reported.

Bhiwadi Superintendent of Police Ram Moorti Joshi said nearly 300 tractors entered neighbouring Haryana from the state.

In Delhi, groups of farmers started going back to their respective sit-in sites on Tuesday evening after hours of chaos during their tractor parade against the farm laws in the national capital.

6:22 PM

Farmers drove tractors off the routes and before the fixed time: Delhi Police Commissioner

The time and the routes for the tractor rally were finalised after several rounds of meetings. But farmers drove tractors off the routes and before the fixed time, leading to vandalism in which many police personnel were injured: Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava to ANI

6:21 PM

Additional companies of Paramilitary Forces likely to be deployed in Delhi

Additional companies of Paramilitary Forces are likely to be deployed in Delhi. These would be over and above 15 companies which were sent yesterday. 5 companies were on standby today: ANI

6:20 PM

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla briefed Home Minister Amit Shah about situation in Delhi

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla briefed Home Minister Amit Shah about situation in Delhi where farmers' tractor parade against farm laws turned violent: PTI

6:09 PM

Groups of farmers start moving back to respective protest states, but thousands still in Delhi

Some groups of farmers started going back to their respective sit-in sites on Tuesday evening after hours of chaos during their tractor parade against the farm laws, but thousands of other protesters were still in several areas, including ITO, Nangloi and Mukarba Chowk, of the national capital. Hundreds of farmers were sitting at the ITO crossing and many, who entered the city from the Singhu border protest site, were moving towards Delhi's Outer Ring Road, PTI reported.

Farmers were seen moving back in batches to Tikri and Ghazipur border protest sites on Tuesday evening. Earlier, wielding sticks and clubs and holding the tricolour and union flags, tens of thousands of farmers atop tractors broke barriers, clashed with police and entered the city from various points to lay siege to the Red Fort and climb the flagpole on Republic Day on Tuesday.

A protesting farmer died after his tractor overturned at ITO during the farmers' tractor parade on Tuesday, police said. The farmers draped the body in the tricolour and kept it at the ITO crossing, not allowing the police to send it for post-mortem.

5:49 PM

Vacate Delhi, return to borders: Punjab CM tells farmers

5:35 PM

Normal service has resumed on grey line: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)

5:21 PM

External elements indulged in violence today, weren't part of movement: AAP

Farmer leaders have said that those who indulged in violence today were not part of the movement and were external elements. Whoever they were, the violence has certainly weakened the movement which was going on so peacefully and in a disciplined manner: AAP

5:14 PM

Vikas Marg to Yamuna Vihar is now open for traffic movement: Delhi Traffic Police

5:14 PM

We strongly condemn the violence seen in today's protest: AAP

We strongly condemn the violence seen in today's protest. It is regrettable that the Central govt allowed the situation to deteriorate to such an extent. The movement has been peaceful for the last two months: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

4:56 PM

Govt orders internet shutdown in areas close to farmers protest sites in Delhi

The government on Tuesday ordered shut down of internet services in parts of Delhi NCR amid protests by farmers in the national capital.

A government order sent to telecom service providers directed temporary suspension of internet services in areas of Singhu, Ghazipur, Tikri, Mukarba Chowk and Nangloi and their adjoining areas in the NCT of Delhi from 12.00 hours to 23.59 hours on the Republic Day, according to the Department of Telecom.

"Government has invoked Temporary Suspension of Telecom Sevices (Public Emergency or Public Safety) Rules, 2017 in the interest of maintaining public safety and averting public emergency to suspend internet services in areas closer to farmers protest sites," a source told PTI.

4:44 PM

Farmers' protest LIVE: Metro Grey, Green lines completely shut

After closing all the stations on the Green line at noon on Tuesday, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has now shuttered all stations on the Grey line as well, in the wake of the farmers' tractor rally running amok in the national capital, according to an IANS report. The Grey line stretches from Dwarka to Najafgarh metro station, while the Green line includes Inderlok all the way to Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh station.

Besides these, a few stations on Yellow, Blue, Red and Violet lines are also closed. Violet line's Lal Qila and Jama Masjid stations, Blue line's Indraprastha station and Red line's Jhilmil and Mansarovar Park stations have also been shut.

For Yellow line, the DMRC tweeted, "Entry and exit gates of Samaypur Badli, Rohini Sector 18-19, Haiderpur Badli Mor, Jahangir Puri, Adarsh Nagar, Azadpur, Model Town, GTB Nagar, Vishwavidyalaya, Vidhan Sabha and Civil Lines are closed."

4:43 PM