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| Tensions run high after deadly farmers clash in India |
| 2021-10-06 |
| [AlAhram] Demonstrators torched a police vehicle in India on Monday as tensions boiled over after festivities involving protesting farmers killed at least nine people. Among the odd demands of this yearlong protest, fronted by a group of professional agitators calling themselves the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU, Indian Farmers' Union) — who are employed by the factors that exploit and grow fat off the small farmers, not actual farmers themselves — is that the central security forces must unconditionally release all Maoist terrorist recruiters and jihadis and their facilitators caught in the past year. Another group showing up front and center at these events is the Khalistan secessionists, the Sikh independence movement that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pakistan’s ISI. The incident on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh state was the deadliest in more than a year of protests by farmers in northern India against new agricultural reforms.Farmers said that a convoy belonging to a government minister, his son and the state's deputy chief minister ran over and killed four people at a demonstration. The minister said later that a driver lost control of his vehicle after being pelted by demonstrators. Angry protesters set fire to several cars and at least five more people, four of them supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were killed. On Monday, the protesters kept the bodies of the four dead farmers in glass cases for display around the protest site. Ick. Police banned gatherings, cut off mobile internet services, sent extra forces and detained several opposition figures on their way to the scene including Priyanka Gandhi from the Congress party.In state capital Lucknow, dozens of police detained local Congress chief Akhilesh Yadav outside his home. Dozens of opposition supporters staged a protest in the city and set fire to at least one police vehicle, television pictures showed. Protests organised by opposition parties also took place in New Delhi and Bangalore. Agriculture has long been a political minefield and employs some two-thirds of India's 1.3 billion population. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government says the reforms will infuse much-needed energy and capital in the sector. Farmers, many of whom have camped outside New Delhi for over a year, fear the changes will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. Related: Uttar Pradesh: 2021-09-29 Muslim IAS officer faces allegations of anti-Hindu propaganda in UP; probe ordered over leaked video Uttar Pradesh: 2021-09-24 Direct link to unlawful conversion racket: UP ATS arrests top Muslim cleric Uttar Pradesh: 2021-09-19 Pak had 3 pronged agenda in creating terror module that Delhi Police bust Related: Farmers protest: 2021-03-11 Farmers ready to continue protest on Delhi borders till Modi govt lasts: Tikait Farmers protest: 2021-03-11 Republic Day violence: Man who assaulted cop with spear among two arrested Farmers protest: 2021-02-27 NIA charges 9 Al-Qaeda operatives from Bengal, Kerala who were planning attacks on ‘kafirs’ Related: Bharatiya Kisan Union: 2021-03-11 Farmers ready to continue protest on Delhi borders till Modi govt lasts: Tikait Bharatiya Kisan Union: 2021-02-20 Farmers protests/Toolkit case roundup Bharatiya Kisan Union: 2021-02-08 Republic Day violence: Wanted for Red Fort protest, Delhi Police arrests Sukhdev Singh in Chandigarh |
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