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Due to unfulfilled previous demands 2024 Indian farmers' protest started on 13 of February 2024. Soon after the acts were introduced, unions began holding local protests, mostly in Punjab state. After two months of protests, farmer unions—mainly from Punjab and neighbouring Haryana —began a movement named Dilli Chalo ( transl.
Authorities are determined to control the new demonstrations to avoid a repeat of the 2021 protests, in which tens of thousands of farmers camped outside the capital for over a year, enduring a ...
Protesting Indian farmers clashed with police for a second consecutive day on Wednesday as tens of thousands tried to march to the capital to demand guaranteed prices for their produce. Police ...
Over 200 farmers' organisations joined the protest. On November 19, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that the centre had chosen to revoke the three agriculture laws passed by Parliament in the year 2020. [17] The farmers are protesting once more, alleging that the government has failed to fulfil the promises made in 2020–2021.
To understand the protests, understand the mandi—the state-run marketplaces that have, for half a century, been the symbol of the contract between the Indian state and its farmers.
The SKM claimed the peaceful protest had been sabotaged by outside groups. The day after the protesters where back at the camps on the edge of capital. [1] On 9 October 2021, Farmer unions termed the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre an "act of terror" that was part of a larger conspiracy to break the 10-month-old farmers’ protest.
Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government, and say they will continue their march to the capital New Delhi.
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]