Protesting Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burn effigies of Modi and other ministers

| February 23, 2024

IndiaProtesting Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burn effigies of Modi and other ministers.

• Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections.
• Farmers also burnt effigies of Home 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.
• After one of the protesters died during the protest, Sartaj Singh, a senior police officer in Punjab’s 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.

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