Indian farmers block roads, railway tracks to mark one year of farm laws

Record ID: 1638871

  • Title: Indian farmers block roads, railway tracks to mark one year of farm laws
  • Date: 27th September 2021
  • Summary: CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS AND POLICE PULLING BARRICADES/VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTER BREAKING BARRICADE/PROTESTERS AND POLICE CLASHING AS THEY PUSH BARRICADES AGAINST EACH OTHER POLICE DETAINING PROTESTER DETAINED PROTESTERS BEING SENT INSIDE BUS/POLICE OFFICIALS STANDING PROTESTERS WITH FLAGS SITTING AND RAISING SLOGANS (SOUNDBITE) (English) TAMIL NADU STATE SECRETARY, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST), K. BALAKRISHNAN, SAYING: "We have participated in the 'bandh' (shutdown). If (Narendra) Modi continuously (shows) reluctance…they delay… they are not delaying to withdrawing the act the struggle will continue and intensify further." RANCHI, JHARKHAND, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH FLAGS RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTERS STANDING AS SOME SIT AND TALK TO MEDIA PERSONS PROTESTERS ARGUING WITH COMMUTERS PROTESTERS ARGUING WITH POLICE OFFICIAL (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) DISTRICT SECRETARY, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA, AJAY SINGH, SAYING: "This protest is against the laws that the farmers do not want but they (government) want to impose it on them forcibly and we will continue to protest till these laws are withdrawn." NEW DELHI, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF PROTESTING FARMERS AND OTHERS RAISING SLOGANS MAN TALKING TO FARMERS VARIOUS OF FARMERS SITTING ON ROAD MAN SPEAKING FARMERS LOOKING ON GHAZIPUR, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF FARMERS AND OTHERS SITTING ON THE ROAD FARMERS RAISING SLOGANS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH INDIAN NATIONAL FLAG SITTING FARMERS SITTING AND RAISING SLOGANS NEW DELHI, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) BARRICADES NEAR RED FORT, THAT WAS STORMED BY PROTESTERS EARLIER DURING FARMERS' PROTEST / PEOPLE WALKING RED FORT PEOPLE WALKING VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICIALS STANDING ON GUARD BAHADURGARH, HARYANA, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF FARMERS SITTING ON RAILWAY TRACKS (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) GENERAL SECRETARY, ALL INDIA KISAN SABHA, PUNJAB, BALDEV SINGH, SAYING: "The nationwide agitation is against the three farm laws and it is going on successfully in the country." HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) FEW VEHICLES PLYING ON ROADS WITH CLOSED SHOPS VARIOUS OF SHUT SHOPS CLOSED BANK / SHUT SHOPS MORE OF SHUT SHOPS FEW VEHICLES PLYING ON ROAD
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2021 09:32
  • Keywords: India Narendra Modi farm laws farmers nationwide strike protest shutdown
  • Location: CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU/ RANCHI, JHARKHAND/ NEW DELHI/ GHAZIPUR, UTTAR PRADESH/BAHADURGARH, HARYANA/ HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA
  • City: CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU/ RANCHI, JHARKHAND/ NEW DELHI/ GHAZIPUR, UTTAR PRADESH/BAHADURGARH, HARYANA/ HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA001EWHVG3Z
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Indian farmers opposed to reforms they say threaten their livelihoods called for a nationwide strike and staged protests on Monday (September 27), a year after laws on the liberalisation of the sector were introduced.
    For 10 months, tens of thousands of farmers have camped out on major highways around the capital, New Delhi, to oppose the laws in the longest-running growers' protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
    Farmers in the Indian capital New Delhi and northern Bahadurgarh city blocked roads and sat on rail tracks as they demanded the Modi-led government to repeal the three laws.
    Angry protesters in India's southern Chennai city broke police barricades and clashed with police as they came out in support of the farmers.
    "We have participated in the 'bandh' (shutdown). If (Narendra) Modi continuously (shows) reluctance…they delay… they are not delaying to withdrawing the act the struggle will continue and intensify further," said Tamil Nadu state secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist), K. Balakrishnan.
    Shops remained shut and roads were largely deserted in India's southern Hyderabad city in support of the farmers.
    This month, more than 500,000 farmers attended a rally in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, the biggest yet in the protest campaign, to step up pressure on Modi's administration to repeal the laws.
    The legislation, introduced in September last year, deregulates the agriculture sector and allows farmers to sell produce to buyers beyond government-regulated wholesale markets, where growers are assured of a minimum price.
    Small farmers say the changes make them vulnerable to competition from big business, and that they could eventually lose price supports for staples such as wheat and rice.
    The government says the reforms mean new opportunities and better prices for farmers.
    Farming sustains almost half of India's more than 1.3 billion people and accounts for about 15% of the $2.7 trillion economy.
    The protests have been generally peaceful but police and farmers clashed in New Delhi in January during a tractor procession and one protester was killed and more than 80 police were injured.
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