Thousands of Indian farmers packed their belongings and dismantled tent cities in Delhi as they headed home following a year-long protest against government's agriculture policies
Hundreds of farmers danced and celebrated the victory as they began removing roadblocks and dismantling thousands of makeshift homes along major highways.
Hundreds of farmers danced and celebrated the victory early Saturday as they began removing roadblocks and dismantling thousands of makeshift homes along major highways in the outskirts of Delhi. At Singhu, one of the protest sites, long queues of lorries and tractors packed the highway heading north into their home states of Haryana and Punjab.
The government said the laws were a necessary reform but farmers opposed the move, saying it would leave them at the mercy of big corporations.
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