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Indian farmers step up protests as eight killed in clashes

NEW DELHI, Oct. 4 — Farmers in India vowed to intensify their months-long protest against laws aimed at liberalising agriculture as tension flared a day after eight people were killed in clashes between growers and ruling party supporters.Four of the eight were killed when a car linked to a senior ruling party official crashed into protesters in Uttar Pradesh state, protest leaders said.Police said they were investigating the crash and had registered a case against 13 people including a son of a minister of state in the interior ministry, Ajay Kumar Mishra.An alliance of protest groups called in a petition to President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday for a court-supervised investigation of the violence."We'll intensify our agitation in Uttar P...

October 4, 2021 at 5:03 pm | Economic Affairs