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US calls for dialogue to resolve India s farmers protests
The farmers’ cause has also drawn support from the Indian diaspora in Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States
Reuters February 04, 2021
A security personnel walks past metal spikes on the ground installed by the Delhi police as a security measure at Tikri Border where farmers are protesting against farm laws, in New Delhi, India, February 4, 2021. REUTERS
NEW DELHI:
Wading into a sensitive issue for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the U.S. embassy in New Delhi on Thursday urged his government to resume talks with farmers angry over agricultural reforms that sparked a months-long protest campaign.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in New Delhi urged India’s government on Thursday to resume talks with farmers whose months-long protests over agricultural reforms erupted into violence last week.
A security personnel walks past metal spikes on the ground installed by the Delhi police as a security measure at Tikri Border where farmers are protesting against farm laws, in New Delhi, India, February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
India’s Foreign Ministry said it had “taken note” of the comments and underlined ongoing efforts between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and farmers groups to resolve the situation.
All roads led to Delhi for a long march of tractor trolleys moving bumper to bumper from various directions in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on Sunday, lending momentum to the planned Republic Day farmers’ rally in the national capital in more ways than one. On stretches of the NH-44 between Haryana’s Ambala and Sonipat, there were tractors as far as the eye could travel.
Songs of protest sung by popular Punjab singers blared from speakers as flags of farmers’ unions fluttered atop tractors headed for the Singhu-Kundli and Tikri borders. Unlike November 26 and 27, when Haryana police had put up barricades at various locations to stop the surge of farmers proceeding towards Delhi. On Sunday, the police’s role was restricted to regulating traffic at bottlenecks created by convoys of tractors.