Kirndeep Kaur: Time to fight for the right to make peaceful protests
The largest protest ever known to man is taking place now in India. Headed by farmers across the country, it is in retaliation to proposed agricultural laws that seek to privatise the Indian agricultural market, without guaranteeing a minimum price for the crops. This means that, in time, private companies will be free to pay the farmers any price they wish, resulting in a high risk of exploitation of farmers. Akin to the national minimum wage we have in the UK, Indian farmers currently receive a guaranteed minimum price for their crops from the government. The security of the minimu...