2024 Indian farmers' protest

The 2024 Indian farmers' protest is the second round of continuous protests and road blockades initiated by farmers in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana on 13 February 2024. The primary requests of the protests include securing legal assurance for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops and complete forgiveness of loans for all farmers.

2024 Indian farmers' protest
Date13 February 2024 – present
Location
 India
Goals
  • Pension of 10,000 INR per month for every farmer above 60 years
  • Fixed daily wages for farming to the farmers under MGNREGA, Rs 700 a day with 200 days of guaranteed employment a year.
  • Government to ensure at least 50% profit over their overall cost of production.
  • Legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for all the crops
  • Implement the recommendations of the MS Swaminathan committee on agriculture
  • Justice for Lakhimpur Kheri violence
  • Urge the government to fulfill its promise to double farmers' incomes, highlighting the surge in cultivation costs over recent years and the stagnation of incomes, which has rendered farming a loss-making enterprise.
  • Call for the withdrawal of legal cases filed against protesters during the previous agitation in 2020-21.
Methods
  • Demonstration
  • Protest
  • Tractor March
Resulted inProtests in parts of Punjab, Haryana and some parts of Uttar Pradesh
Parties
Casualties and losses

3 deaths

Several security force personnel injured
5 deaths
160 protestors injured
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