Farmers’ protest: March to restart amid tight security at Delhi’s borders
Thousands of Indian farmers are trying to march once again to the capital Delhi demnading the government guarantee a minimum price for their crops. They stopped their protest in February after a young farmer died. Now, they’re trying to march to Delhi again, but the city’s borders are blocked with barricades and police.
This protest is happening close to India’s general elections. Farmers are a big group of voters, and experts think Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government doesn’t want to upset them right before the elections.
The protests started in February, and the government talked with the farmers’ unions to stop them from marching to Delhi from nearby states like Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. However these talks failed at least three times because the government couldn’t meet all of the farmers’ demands.