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You may have seen rallies in the lower mainland and around the world supporting Indian farmers who are holding a massive protest that have lasted for months in New Delhi. They are the biggest protests in history. Police have tried to use barricades, ditches and even beaten farmers but nothing has stopped them from coming, many on tractors.
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I mean they love Modi like a god, cuz he's all anti Muslim, and voted for him in droves, but he had long been an advocate of decentralizing and deregulation of the agriculture industry, he did similar things as governor of gujarat, it worked really well for him too back then (gujarat had like an incredible growth of their agro industry), granted he didn't cut farmers subsidies (I don't think) but they should've seen it coming
I'm impressed that they've been protesting peacefully, and good luck to them, but they kinda gave modi too much power, and it doesn't look like he's going to budge
People who are protesting bought supplies to last them for months. Khalsa Aid a charity out of the U.K. Brought in toilets, tents and a mall where people can get supplies for free.
Greta Thunberg under investigation for posting a tweet supporting farmers. The tweet had a link to a toolkit that showed people how to support farmers.
The government of India and its supporters looking stupider every day.
NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster donated 10K to help the farmers. Rihanna posted on twitter about the farmers and now other celebrities have followed. Indian government supporters are calling her a porn singer.
Singer Diljit Dosanjh who has been supporting the farmers since day one released this song about her. Music by Surreys Intense.
I noticed a lot of people complaining that Indian celebrities and athletes aren't supporting the farmers, even though westerners are. Really sets up a divide doesn't it?
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Westerners want something to support/complain about, celebrities want something they can complain about safely that won't hurt their wallets, and make their fans think they care
You don't see celebrities protesting about uighurs in concentration camps, and uighur women being raped and sterilised. The latter being a big issue for feminist celebrities too, but protesting that would mean their movies and advertising deals being nixed in China
Same reason Indian celebrities staying out of this, and HK celebrities staying quiet during the riots, except for a few, who are now blacklisted
Some Indian celebs have come out to support the farmers after Rihanna came out. Many Punjabi singers have been supporting the farmers. Most celebs in India are afraid of the government and the billionaires behind the bill. Government supporters have threatened to rape and kill Gretta and have made fun of Rihanna being beat up by Chris Brown.
Diljit Dosanjh has been beefing with actress and government mouthpiece Kangana Ranaut.
Diljit Dosanjh and Kangana Ranaut got into a war of words on Twitter today (February 3) after the release of the singer's new single, Riri (Rihanna). Diljit Dosanjh had released a new song dedicated to Rihanna after her viral tweet supporting the ongoing farmers' protests. The song went viral and has over 395k views already.
Reacting to the song, Kangana accused Diljit of trying to make money from the situation. Her tweet led to yet another war of words between the two.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the nation at 9 am. In a stunning U-turn, the prime minister has decided to repeal all three agricultural reform laws that have sparked almost a year of massive protests by farmers. He said his cabinet will take the decision next month.
"We have decided to repeal all three farm laws. We will start the constitutional process to repeal all the three laws in the parliament session that starts at the end of this month," Modi said in an address to the nation.
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half of his policies are not thought thru. gst, demonetization, and this to name a few. he is a populist leader, Donald trump of India. i for one don't hope he's re-elected. but then again, no real opposition leader either.
Great news, and I'm sure the Surrey Jacks driving around in their Escalades honking in front of the Indian Consulate downtown is what tipped Modi's hand.
Great news, and I'm sure the Surrey Jacks driving around in their Escalades honking in front of the Indian Consulate downtown is what tipped Modi's hand.
What tipped his hand was the up coming elections. People at protests around the world also raised a lot of money to support the farmers protesting. They raised so much that Khalsa Aid asked people to stop donating. Having celebrities like Rihanna post about it did not hurt.
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