Name: India Unrest: Why Farmers Are Protesting Ahead of Election | WSJ
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- [Anchorman] Thousands of farmers in India

Present continuous

are blocking highways and holding massive protests.

as they try to reach the capitol of new Delhi.

This is the second major tussle between farmers

and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government

and what they reveal about the challenges

- Farmers in Northern India began marching towards Delhi

and they have a couple of different demands.

to act as kind of a guarantee for more crops that they grow.

Right now in India, there is something called

That really helps farmers when prices crash,

and they know that the government will step in to buy,

at least for rice and wheat, some of their crop,

and that can help them cover their costs,

and is a protection for a lot of farmers.

But the problem is that other kinds of crops

in attempt to get the farmers to go back home,

The government doesn't really want to extend

this legal guarantee to other kinds of crops,

and the reason being that it does actually

So they had come up with an offer to guarantee buying

for a few crops that the farmers were talking about,

So basically they're offering more of a short term proposal,

and the farmers were not really happy with that.

They felt like it really wouldn't give them

the kind of security that they're looking for.

This is actually the second confrontation

between the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

There is some interconnections between these farm protests

Some people say that there are unusually large number

of people in India still today very dependent on farming.

And usually when countries grow and develop,

and then they go into other kinds of jobs in cities.

And this happened in China, this happened in the US,

so we've seen that happen all over the world.

They talk about jobs, and they talk about the challenge

of making India into a different kind of economy,

They want other kinds of jobs to take the place

is that that is not happening fast enough.

We are seeing investments, and we are seeing factories,

but India would need to create millions and millions of jobs

India is expected to go to the polls in April and May,

and farmers probably felt that this would be a good time

Farmers are possibly one of the most important

That's a very big number of people that depend on this.

I think that the government would be worried

They wouldn't want it to become snowballed into something.

And I think from what we saw from the last time,

nobody expected those protests to go on for a year.

So I'm sure that the government is very keen

and work their way out of this with the farmers.

that they indeed are trying to work with them.

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