: The Political Fix: Three ways to understand the massive farmer protests taking on Modi in Delhi #IndiaNEWS Welcome to The Political Fix by Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, a newsletter on Indian politics

The Political Fix: Three ways to understand the massive farmer protests taking on Modi in Delhi #IndiaNEWS
Welcome to The Political Fix by Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, a newsletter on Indian politics and policy. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up here. We don’t charge for this newsletter, but if you would like to support us consider contributing to the Scroll Reporting Fund or, if you’re not in India, subscribing to Scroll+. The Big Story: Hindsight For the second December in a row, as temperatures plunge in India’s national capital, tens of thousands of people are out on the streets in Delhi to protest laws passed by Parliament that they believe are unjust. Farmers, primarily from Punjab but a great many from other states too, have been blockading a number of the roads entering the capital for 19 days now. Thousands of tractors are jamming traffic into Delhi. And the crowds are growing. As the Indian Express reported:“At Singhu border on Saturday, a new truck or trolley kept arriving every few minutes – hundreds of vehicles have been making their way from several Punjab districts, via different routes, so they are not stopped at state borders. By Sunday, over 1,500 vehicles are expected to make their way to the Delhi border…The Delhi Police said more than 10,000 protesters are at Tikri border. At the Singhu border, police said around 17,000...Read more

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