With a small group gathered around him Thursday on a mat thrown hastily on the ground, Gurmeet Singh shook his head in disgust at how authorities were blocking him and other protesting farmers from advancing on India’s capital.
“They are trying everything to weaken our protest,” said Singh, 47, a farmer from the northern Indian state of Haryana.
“We arrived unarmed, carrying only flags, yet the government’s response has been so aggressive,” Sukvinder Singh, another farmer, added.
A few metres from where Gurmeet Singh sat, at the edge of the border between Haryana and Punjab, two states whose land is primarily devoted to
