Indian police bulldoze farmer protest sites in Punjab-Haryana border

Record ID: 1984802

  • Title: Indian police bulldoze farmer protest sites in Punjab-Haryana border
  • Date: 20th March 2025
  • Summary: PUNJAB-HARYANA BORDER, INDIA (MARCH 20, 2025) (ANI - No use India) VARIOUS OF BULLDOZER DESTROYING TEMPORARY CAMPS SET UP BY PROTESTING FARMERS DEBRIS OF DESTROYED CAMP DAMAGED AIR CONDITIONER DAMAGED STANDING FAN BLANKET AND BAG LYING ON ROAD DEBRIS OF DESTROYED CAMP BROKEN FURNITURE/BLANKETS LYING (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) PROTESTING FARMER, NAVTEJ SINGH, SAYING: "We will stil
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  • Keywords: Haryana India Khanauri Punjab Shambhu border bulldozer crops demands farmers government minimum support price police protest site union leaders
  • Location: PUNJAB-HARYANA BORDER, INDIA
  • City: PUNJAB-HARYANA BORDER, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001M10EY4V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Police in India's northern state of Punjab used bulldozers to tear down temporary camps set up by protesting farmers in a border area where they had staged demonstrations for more than a year to demand better crop prices.
    The farmers had camped on the border with adjoining Haryana since last February, when security forces halted their march toward the capital, New Delhi, to press for legally-backed guarantees of more state support for crops.
    The farmers had been given prior notice, according to police officials.
    Among the hundreds detained were farmers' leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal, the latter carried away in an ambulance as he had been on an indefinite protest fast for months, local media reports said.
    "On one hand the government is negotiating with the farmer organizations and on the other hand it is arresting them," Rakesh Tikait, a spokesperson for farmer group Bhartiya Kisan Union said on X.
    Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which authorized the eviction, said it stood by the farmers in their demands, but asked them to take up their grievances with the federal government.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was forced to repeal some farm laws in 2021 after a year-long protest by farmers when they camped outside Delhi for months.
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