India’s Angry Farmers Mass 25,000 Tractors in March on Delhi
- Protesters demand guaranteed crop prices and debt forgiveness
- Police have set up barbed wire and barriers to halt advance
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India’s farmers have amassed a protest fleet of 25,000 tractors and more are expected to join as growers march on the nation’s capital, demanding guaranteed crop prices and loan waivers to ease cost pressures.
Farmers mainly from Punjab and Haryana are seeking to congregate at an 18th-century observatory called Jantar Mantar in Delhi — a traditional protest point — but police have set up metal barriers and barbed wire to halt their advance. Footage has also showed the use of teargas to disperse people.