Indian farmers resume Delhi protest push after talks fail
- 21-Feb-2024
PATIALA, India: Thousands of Indian farmers riding tractors prepared to resume their push towards New Delhi on Wednesday after failing to reach a deal with the government on their demands for higher crop prices. The protest hopes to successfully replicate the yearlong siege of highways into the capital that pressured Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government […]
Indian police fire tear gas as protesting farmers march to capital
- 13-Feb-2024
NEW DELHI: Indian security forces fired tear gas Tuesday to stop thousands of farmers demanding minimum crop prices from marching on the capital New Delhi after talks with the government failed. Local broadcasters showed thick clouds of tear gas fired to disperse protesters near Ambala, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital. Police […]
‘Rail Roko’ protest by Indian farmers disrupts countrywide railway movement
- 18-Feb-2021
The railway blockade will be the third major demonstration by farmers, after the Republic Day tractor rally and the ‘chakka jam’
Farmers won’t go home until agreement is reached, says Rakesh Tikait of BKU
- 12-Feb-2021
'Agitation is not limited to Punjab, Haryana or Uttar Pradesh but instead spread across India and will go to Modi's home state Gujarat as well'