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  Clashes in India’s capital as protesting farmers enter Delhi to challenge Modi

  Posted by Sarah on 26 January 2021 at 10:42 am

  Clashes broke out between farmers and police in the heart of India’s capital as a wave of protesters entered the city on tractors and on foot in a fresh challenge to the country’s leadership.

  The unprecedented rally was meant as a show of strength by the protesting farmers, who have already spent 2 months camped out on the borders of the city to oppose new agricultural laws that they consider a threat to their livelihoods.

  Early on Tuesday, some farmers deviated from the protest routes that union leaders had decided with police. Instead they drove and marched toward the center of the city, taking over a major intersection and climbing the ramparts of the Delhi red fort built in the 17th century.

  Police fired tear gas canisters and beat protesters with sticks at several locations after farmers broke through barricades. Some farmers drove tractors high speed toward police personnel in an area that is home to the police headquarters and close to India’s Supreme Court. There were reports of injuries and one death, but The Washington Post was unable to confirm the news.

  The tenacity of the farmer protests and the chaotic scenes in Delhi represent a growing political problem for the government of Indian globalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which won a landslide reelection victory in 2019.

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