{"id":4894,"date":"2021-04-08T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T11:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T11:48:57","slug":"what-the-crackdown-on-farmers-protests-says-about-the-future-of-democracy-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4894","title":{"rendered":"What the crackdown on farmers\u2019 protests says about the future of democracy in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers and their supporters have been occupying major roads surrounding the capital, New Delhi, since November in protest of the agriculture reform laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the new policies, introduced by Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian farmers must sell goods and make contracts with independent buyers<\/a> outside of government-sanctioned marketplaces, which have long served as the primary locations for farmers to do business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modi and members of his party say the reforms are needed to help India modernize and improve its farming industry<\/a>, which will mean greater freedom and prosperity for farmers. But the farmers, afraid they will be at the mercy of big business, remain unconvinced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modi\u2019s government offered to put the laws on hold for 18 months, but the farmers have refused, demanding a full retraction of the laws to end their standoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an 11th<\/a> round of talks between the farmers and the government failed, the farmers unions decided to up the ante with a tractor march into the capital on India\u2019s Republic Day, which commemorates the signing of India\u2019s constitution. Miscommunication led to violent face-offs with police, who used tear gas and batons to try to turn them back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of police officers were injured. A farmer was also crushed when\u00a0his tractor was among the many vehicles overturned<\/a>\u00a0in the violence.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22279960\/modi-india-rihanna-farmer-protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers and their supporters have been occupying major roads surrounding the capital, New Delhi, since November in protest of the agriculture reform laws.<\/p>\n

Under the new policies, introduced by Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian farmers must sell goods and make contracts with independent buyers outside of government-sanctioned marketplaces, which have long served as the primary locations for farmers to do business.<\/p>\n

Modi and members of his party say the reforms are needed to help India modernize and improve its farming industry, which will mean greater freedom and prosperity for farmers. But the farmers, afraid they will be at the mercy of big business, remain unconvinced.<\/p>\n

Modi\u2019s government offered to put the laws on hold for 18 months, but the farmers have refused, demanding a full retraction of the laws to end their standoff.<\/p>\n

After an 11th round of talks between the farmers and the government failed, the farmers unions decided to up the ante with a tractor march into the capital on India\u2019s Republic Day, which commemorates the signing of India\u2019s constitution. Miscommunication led to violent face-offs with police, who used tear gas and batons to try to turn them back.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of police officers were injured. A farmer was also crushed when his tractor was among the many vehicles overturned in the violence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,224,83,494,362],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-farmers","tag-india","tag-modi","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4895,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}