BREAKING: India to withdraw controversial farm laws that prompted year-long protests from tens of thousands of farmers and posed a significant political challenge to his administration.
that prompted year-long protests from tens of thousands of farmers and posed a significant political challenge to his administration.
The announcement came on the day of the Guru Purab festival, when Sikhism founder Guru Nanak’s birthday is celebrated, and ahead of key elections in states like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Most of the protesters are Sikh farmers from Punjab. These perceived threats to their income terrified India’s farmers, who mostly work on a small scale: More than two-thirds of them own less than 1 hectare of land.
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