At least 50 people, including seven police personnel, were injured and six vehicles were damaged when protesting farmers allegedly tried to force their way inside the venue of an event of by Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday.
Police claimed that some of the protesters scuffled with them and hurled stones in a bid to force their way inside the SAD event venue in Moga's grain market.
Farmers claimed they were protesting peacefully and wanted to meet SAD chief Badal to seek answers on farmers’ issues.
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal had recently started a 100-day "yatra" across hundred assembly constituencies in Punjab.