India’s farmers renew protests, call for nationwide strike

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of Indian farmers are blocking large roads and railway tracks extracurricular the superior of New Delhi, marking 1 twelvemonth of protests against cultivation laws that they accidental volition shatter their livelihoods. The temper connected Monday was charged with determination to support the anti-government demonstrations going — immoderate adjacent brought mattresses with them, camping retired arsenic the time went on. The farmers called for a nation-wide onslaught to people 1 twelvemonth since the authorities was passed. The drawn-out demonstrations person posed 1 of the biggest governmental challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The farmers accidental the caller authorities volition devastate their net by ending guaranteed pricing and unit them to merchantability their crops to corporations astatine cheaper prices.