new delhi concrete slabs concertina wire trucks filled with sand and edgy policemen firing teargas rounds kept the huge throng of agitating farmers stalled at singhu border on the delhichandigarh highway till late in the afternoon on friday by the time the administration finally relented and offered the nirankari samagam grounds at burari in north delhi to their leaders resentment against police action and the fear of being corralled and grounded virtually on the outskirts of delhi made the protesters opt for spending the night at the barricadesabout 50km away at tikri border another group of farmers had to be targeted with water cannon by police in the morning when they attempted to move the trucks blocking their way by driving their tractors into them late in the afternoon some had decided to quietly move to the burari grounds but changed their mind when news reached them that the protesters at singhu border had decided to stay put for the nightthough police reported late in the night that a small group of farmers had reached burari it was obvious that the attempt to end the standoff had not entirely succeeded delhi police officials said they were not letting their guard down they have formed around 12 teams under dcprank officials which will maintain vigil through the nightmost of the farmers organisations from punjab about 30 are in favour of moving to burari but the younger lot is resisting and was behind the decision to settle down at singhu border there is a lot of resentment against the repeated teargassing by police some feel that ramlila maidan or jantar mantar would have given them a better platform however the senior leadership hopes to bring them around by saturdayswaraj india chief yogendra yadav told toi that this was an avoidable stalemate he described the move to let the farmers enter delhi with their tractor trolleys as a historic decision recalling that it was happening three decades after the 1988 bharatiya kisan union agitation he said there was no need for any provocation and thankfully there has been no violencethe centre had earlier invited the farmers for talks on the farm bills on december 3 the decision to let them enter the capital came after discussions with the ministry of home affairs the delhi lieutenant governor and intelligence agencies said sourcesdelhi police had on thursday evening stepped up deployment at all the borders in order to stop the farmers from entering the city at all costs the entire police brass including police commissioner s n shrivastava was out on a nightlong vigilthe jostling at singhu border led to police using mild force and teargas shells some farmers had tried to breach the barricades and pelt stones there were clashes at tikri border too where according to a senior police officer 200 tractors were parked on the other sidemeanwhile work was on to set up essential facilities at the nirankari grounds in burari withportable toilets water tankers a mobile dispensary and