, to press for the quashing of three new laws on agricultural reform that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings.
At Singhu, a protest site on the outskirts of New Delhi, hundreds of farmers blocked all entry and exit routes and chanted anti-government slogans. Some of them carried banners reading “No farmers, no food.”Manish Swarup/The Associated Press Another protester, Rajdeep Singh, a 20-year-old student who helps his farming family back home in Punjab, said the protest would continue until their demands are met.Farmer leaders have threatened to intensify their actions and have threatened to block trains in the coming days if the government doesn’t abolish the laws.The farmers filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Friday seeking the quashing of the laws, which were passed in September.