Farmers in India have welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to scrap three contentious agriculture regulations that had sparked the country’s longest and largest anti-government protests. Farmers, however, plan to keep putting pressure on the government to meet other major demand
On 2nd of August , i was stopped by some policeman near the bridge of Gazipur border . “No one is allowed there. ” The protest is still going on
Farmers have been camped outside the Indian capital for almost eight months in the longest-running protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, demanding the repeal of new legislation they fear will harm their livelihoods. Anjana Pasricha visits the protest site to learn how and why farmers have persevered through winter, summer, the pandemic’s virulent second wave, and monsoon rains
Farmers in North India have led a three-month long protest against three agricultural laws that aim to reform India’s farm sector but which they fear will impact their livelihoods
Indian farmers protesting on New Delhi’s outskirts are vowing to continue their two-month struggle to scrap three new farm laws, despite recent violence that has cast a shadow on what is being called one of the world’s largest protests. Led by farmers from the agricultural state of Punjab, the protest includes many educated young people, highlighting India’s growing joblessness problem
A centuries-old tradition among Sikhs is helping sustain a farmers’ protest in India as volunteers prepare thousands of meals for demonstrators who have been camping on highways near the Indian capital for nearly three weeks
Tens of thousands of farmers in India are protesting new laws that aim to dismantle government regulated farm trade and usher in sweeping agricultural reforms