Angry Farmers Storm India’s Red Fort in Huge Tractor Rally
The farmers — many of them Sikhs from Punjab and Haryana states — are demanding the withdrawal of new laws which they say will commercialize agriculture and devastate farmers' earnings.
- Published 26 January 2021
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesting farmers drove long lines of tractors into India’s capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades, defying tear gas and storming the historic Red Fort as the nation celebrated Republic Day. They waved farm union and religious flags from the ramparts of the fort, where prime ministers annually hoist the national flag to mark the country’s independence. Thousands more farmers marched on foot or rode on horseback…
