Nationwide strike by India farmers a year after farm laws enacted
Al Jazeera
Farmers’ unions across the vast country protest, disrupting road and rail services, to demand repeal of the laws.
Indian farmers opposed to reforms they say threaten their livelihoods aim to renew their push against the changes by holding nationwide protests 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. The farmers’ groups announced their renewed determination to protest on Monday.
“Thousands of farmers have spread out to different districts to ensure a complete nationwide strike aimed at reminding the government to repeal the laws introduced to favour large private corporations,” Rakesh Tikait, a prominent farmers’ leader, told the Reuters news agency.
