Farmer groups in India have been protesting in New Delhi to demand a legally backed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops. The government and farm leaders have gone through several rounds of discussions and negotiations but there has been no breakthrough. On 13 February farmer groups launched the “Delhi Chalo” march and for several weeks protesters in trucks and tractors were blocked from entering New Delhi by heavy security deployments within and outside the city. These protest have important economic and political implications and to unpack these Mr Saeeduddin Faridi, Research Analyst, ISAS, is in conversation with Mr Harish Damodaran, National Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor, Indian Express. They discuss the demands of the protests, the political economy of the farming sector in India and what drives the government’s response to the protests.
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