Farmers confront police in march to protest new rules
Tens of thousands of farmers marched, rode horses and drove tractors into New Delhi on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades to storm the historic Red Fort as the nation watched in shock on live television — a deeply symbolic act that revealed the scale of their challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons and set up barricades in an attempt to prevent the protesters from reaching the center of New Delhi, but the demonstrators — some carrying ceremonial swords, ropes and sticks — overwhelmed police in a fight over new corporate farming regulations.