Breaking barricades to ride into India’s national capital on tractors and motorbikes through tear-gas shells fired by police, protesting farmers swarmed the historic Red Fort in Delhi on India’s Republic Day — the day the country celebrates with pomp and pageantry.
Tens of thousands of farmers, protesting three new laws on agriculture passed recently by the Narendra Modi government, on Thursday braved teargas shells and water cannons in their march towards Delhi from Punjab.
India woke up Friday with farmers up in arms across the nation against three controversial pieces of legislation passed recently by the Narendra Modi government during a truncated session of Parliament.
