Demonstrations in India: "The power will seek to discredit the peasants"
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Angry farmers on the streets of New Delhi on January 26, 2021, the national holiday.
REUTERS - DANISH SIDDIQUI
By: Florent Guignard
8 min
For two months, Indian peasants have been mobilizing at the gates of New Delhi against the land reform implemented by the government of Narendra Modi.
This has a profound impact on the agricultural sector and degrades the living conditions of the Indian masses, already particularly precarious.
Several other points located on the outskirts of the capital are hampered by farmers from neighboring states: Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh.
The decryption of Christophe Jaffrelot, director of research at CERI Sciences Po / CNRS.
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Christophe Jaffrelot is the author of
L'Inde de Modi.
National-populism and ethnic democracy
, published by Fayard.
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