While a section of farmer unions were protesting, the Indian government claimed that some unions had come out in support of the farm laws.
Hence, farm reform is more sensitive issue in these food surplus states as compared to other nett food consumer states with negative food security such as BIMARU states. Smaller but richer states of Haryana & Punjab, with large surplus food production, are the massive provider of food security to India as they provide 70-90% of wheat & 28-44% of rice of India's total PDS. Eleven rounds of talks took place between the central government and farmers represented by the farm unions between 14 October 2020 and 22 January 2021 all were inconclusive with agreement on only two relatively minor points. November 2020 saw a nationwide general strike in support of the farmers and thousands converging at various border points on the way to Delhi. The Indian government ordered the police and law enforcement of various states to stop the protesters using water cannons, batons, and tear gas to prevent them entering Haryana and then Delhi. Let's go to Delhi), in which tens of thousands of union members marched towards the nation's capital. After two months of protests, farmer unions-mainly from Punjab and neighbouring Haryana-began a movement named Dilli Chalo ( transl. Soon after the acts were introduced, unions began holding local protests, mostly in Punjab state. Despite India being largely self-sufficient in foodgrain production and having welfare schemes, hunger and nutrition remain serious issues, with India ranking as one of the worst countries in the world in food security parameters. Related endemic legacy issues include farmer suicides and low farmer incomes. The Union Government, however, maintained that the laws would make it effortless for farmers to sell their produce directly to big buyers, and stated that the protests are based on misinformation. The protests also demanded the creation of a minimum support price (MSP) bill, to ensure that corporates cannot control the prices. The acts, often called the Farm Bills, had been described as "anti-farmer laws" by many farmer unions, and politicians from the opposition who said that it would leave farmers at the "mercy of corporates".
The 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest was a protest against three farm acts that were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020.
Over 1,500 telecom tower sites damaged by protestors (as of 28 December 2022 ).National highways dug up by police to stop protestors from marching to capital.
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