India halts farmers’ march with smoke bombs and drones
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The last time Indian farmers marched on New Delhi, they forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a rare policy climbdown. So earlier this month Juzhar Singh climbed on his tractor to join thousands of fellow farmers streaming south towards the capital to try to do it again.
But while in 2020 and 2021 farmers from northern India’s agricultural belt were able to camp out in New Delhi for nearly a year, this time they have been stopped at a state border more than 200km away by barricades and police armed with smoke bombs and drones dropping tear gas.
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