{"id":47846,"date":"2021-02-21T14:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=182621"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:34:19","slug":"as-farmers-expand-their-agitation-indian-government-intensifies-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/21\/as-farmers-expand-their-agitation-indian-government-intensifies-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"As Farmers Expand Their Agitation, Indian Government Intensifies Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushed on the back foot by the popular support for the farmers\u2019 agitation against its pro-agribusiness farm laws, India\u2019s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is systematically intensifying state repression against protesters and their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Since late November, tens of thousands of protesting farmers, principally from the nearby states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have been encamped on the outskirts of the Delhi National Capital Territory. Their Delhi\u00a0Chalo\u00a0(Let\u2019s go to Delhi) protest, which is demanding the repeal of all three recently-enacted farm laws, was prevented from entering the capital by a massive police mobilisation organised by the Modi government.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/as-farmers-expand-their-agitation-indian-government-intensifies-repression\/\">As Farmers Expand Their Agitation, Indian Government Intensifies Repression<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/as-farmers-expand-their-agitation-indian-government-intensifies-repression\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushed on the back foot by the popular support for the farmers\u2019 agitation against its pro-agribusiness farm laws, India\u2019s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is systematically intensifying state repression against protesters and their su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[943,452,5720,6486,7243],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47847,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846\/revisions\/47847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}