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The first round of protests in 2020-21 saw thousands of farmers camp on the national capital Delhi’s border for nearly a year, forcing the Modi government to repeal a set of contentious farm laws.
The 2024 Indian farmers' protest is the second round of continuous protests and road blockades initiated by farmers in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana on 13 February 2024, primarily located at Punjab's Shambhu border. [13]
Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops will postpone a planned protest march to New Delhi until unions hold another round of talks with government ministers on Sunday. Agriculture ...
On 20 December, the 25th day of the protest, to honour the memory of 41 farmers who have died since 15 September, called shahid by the farmer's leaders, national 'Shradhanjali Diwas' (Homage and Remembrance Day), was observed at Singhu, Tikri, UP Gate, and Chilla, farmer-camps with largest farmer's presence on the borders of Delhi, and in town ...
In a March 2021 interview Trolley Times editor and photojournalist Navkiran Natt told Germany's Deutsche Welle News that for godi-media, "their primary platform is social media but our audience is an old farmer, for whom media is synonymous with a physical newspaper."
On 9 October, the farmer unions termed the violence an "act of terror" that was part of a larger conspiracy to break the ten-month-old farmers' protest. The union stated, this "massacre" during the farmer's movement was analogous to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 during the Indian independence movement.
The acts have faced protests from farmers in various parts of India alleging that it will hurt their earnings. [66] The main reasons for opposition is the uncertainty regarding the implementation of the reforms, [ 67 ] controversy surrounding the minimum support prices (MSPs) [ 68 ] and low bargaining power of the farmers are some of the fears ...
The strike was followed by the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest march to the Indian capital New Delhi. On 30 November, "tens of thousands of farmers and their supporters ... [were] demonstrating at several road junctions". [7] By 3 December, BBC News estimated the number of farmers blocking New Delhi in the hundreds of thousands. [8]