India’s prime minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday protesters that stormed New Delhi’s Red Fort had caused “insult” to the country, his first public comments on a months-long farmers’ agitation that turned violent this week
Modi vows to move ahead with agricultural reforms despite farmers protests
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Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) stands with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders as he addresses the media representatives upon his arrival for the budget session at the parliament in New Delhi
on January 29, 2021. AFP/Money Sharma
Modi criticises last week s deadly riot in New Delhi where one was killed and hundreds injured
Calls the farmers gathering at a historic fort an insult to the national flag despite no harm brought to the flag on top of the monument
Stresses that the government remains committed to modernising agriculture
Modi vows to pursue reforms after deadly farmer riot PTI
Updated Jan 31, 2021, 7:50 pm IST
The PM called the farmers assault on a historic fort an insult to the national flag
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Image source: PTI)
NEW DELHI: India will push on with sweeping agriculture reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday, as he criticised last week s deadly riot in the capital following a long-running protest campaign by farmers.
Thousands flooded New Delhi on Tuesday, driving tractors from border camps where they have been holding sit-ins since November 26; but the rally turned into a rampage which left one person dead and hundreds of police injured.