FARMERS STAGE NEW RALLY

FLUSHED with victory after Prime Minister Narendra Modi caved into demands for agricultural reform laws to be repealed, Indian farmers held a mass rally yesterday to demand minimum support prices be extended to all produce, not just rice and wheat. Thousands gathered for the latest rally in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, Farmers also asked for the federal government to withdraw a draft electricity bill they fear would lead to withdrawing subsidised power, used for irrigation. |