Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian police used tear gas and pepper spray against dozens of farmers who began marching from Punjab state along a key highway to Delhi on Friday to demand better prices for their crops.
Police prevent Indian Punjabi farmers marching to Delhi to demand better prices
Thousands of farmers rally in New Delhi to demand higher crop prices
Allowing farmers to enter the city seen as a concession from Modi government
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of farmers rode buses and trains from across India to gather on Thursday at a rally in the capital, New Delhi, pressing a demand for higher guaranteed prices for their crops, as they faced down police barricades and tough security.
Indian farmers say detentions foil Delhi protest, police say no one held
Protest leaders urged farmers to take busses, trains to capital as tractors were blocked
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dozens of protesting Indian farmers were detained en route to New Delhi on Wednesday, delaying their plan again to converge on the capital to demand higher crop prices, protest leaders said.
Protesting Indian farmers burn effigies of Modi and other ministers
Farmers paused their march Wednesday after the death of a demonstrator--blamed on police aggression
Reading Time: 2 minutes Shambu, India | Reuters -- Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections.
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