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Police prevent Indian Punjabi farmers marching to Delhi to demand better prices

By Anushree Fadnavis, Reuters, Sakshi Dayal December 6, 2024
Indian police used tear gas and pepper spray against dozens of farmers who began marching from Punjab state along a key highway to Delhi on Friday to demand better prices for their crops.

Farmers attend a Maha Panchayat or grand village council meeting as part of a farmers’ protest to press for the better crop prices promised to them in 2021, New Delhi, India, March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Thousands of farmers rally in New Delhi to demand higher crop prices

Allowing farmers to enter the city seen as a concession from Modi government

By Adnan Abidi, Reuters, Sakshi Dayal, Shivangi Acharya March 14, 2024
Thousands of farmers rode buses and trains from across India to gather on Thursday at a rally in the capital, New Delhi, pressing a demand for higher guaranteed prices for their crops, as they faced down police barricades and tough security.


FILE PHOTO: Farmers gesture towards police officers at the site of a protest as they march towards New Delhi to press for better crop prices, at Shambhu barrier, a border crossing between Punjab and Haryana states, India, February 21, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

Indian farmers say detentions foil Delhi protest, police say no one held

Protest leaders urged farmers to take busses, trains to capital as tractors were blocked

By rajendra-jadhav, Reuters, Sakshi Dayal March 6, 2024
Dozens of protesting Indian farmers were detained en route to New Delhi on Wednesday, delaying their plan again to converge on the capital to demand higher crop prices, protest leaders said.

A farmer equipped to face police tear gas is posing for a photo while Indian farmers, who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices, wait to march to the capital near the Shambhu border that divides the northern Punjab and Haryana states, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) from New Delhi, India, on February 21, 2024. Photo: Rohit Lohia/NurPhoto.

Protesting Indian farmers burn effigies of Modi and other ministers

Farmers paused their march Wednesday after the death of a demonstrator--blamed on police aggression

By Adnan Abidi, Reuters, Sakshi Dayal, Sunil Kataria February 23, 2024
Shambu, India | Reuters -- Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections.

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