{"id":63500,"date":"2024-02-23T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/protesting-indian-farmers-burn-effigies-of-modi-and-other-ministers\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:44:14","slug":"protesting-indian-farmers-burn-effigies-of-modi-and-other-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/protesting-indian-farmers-burn-effigies-of-modi-and-other-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesting Indian farmers burn effigies of Modi and other ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of farmers began a \u2018<em>Delhi Chalo<\/em>\u2019 (Let\u2019s go to Delhi) march last week but were stopped by security forces about 200km (125 miles) north of the capital, with water cannons and teargas being used to push them back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1815969\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Farmer leaders on Thursday announced a series of \u201cmega programmes\u201d across India to press their demands. The \u201cBlack Day\u201d today will be followed by a tractor rally on highways on Feb 26, and a farm workers\u2019 public meeting in Delhi on March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Black flags were hoisted on tractors and trolleys lined up at the protest site on Friday. Several protesters, most of whom are Sikhs from the northern state of Punjab, also tied black cloth over their turbans in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers also burnt effigies also of Home (interior) Minister Amit Shah and the chief minister of Haryana state, whose police force they accuse of using force against them, and chanted slogans demanding minimum prices for their crops.<\/p>\n<p>A general election is due by May.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"protesters-death\" href=\"#protesters-death\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Protester\u2019s death<\/h2>\n<p>The farmers paused their march for two days on Wednesday after the death of a protester, which they blamed on police aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Sartaj Singh, a senior police officer in Punjab\u2019s Sangrur district, where the incident took place, said the man died at a protest site but that the cause of his death would be known only after the autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced compensation of 10 million rupees ($120,000) for the dead man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer leaders rejected the compensation and said they would not allow the autopsy to be conducted until a murder case is registered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a meeting in the evening to decide next steps (regarding the march),\u201d farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International condemned the protester\u2019s death and urged the government to \u201crespect, protect and facilitate the right to freedom of peaceful assembly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe price of protest must not be death,\u201d said Aakar Patel, chair of board at Amnesty International India.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections. Thousands of farmers began a \u2018Delhi Chalo\u2019 (Let\u2019s go to Delhi) march last week but were stopped by security forces about 200km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/02\/23173038b09d271.jpg?r=173108","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}