In Punjab, India, police detained numerous farmers who have been protesting for over a year for improved crop prices. Authorities dismantled their camps using bulldozers. Prominent leaders like Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal were among those arrested, with Dallewal taken away due to his prolonged hunger strike. Police claimed that the farmers cooperated during the detentions. These actions coincided with ongoing negotiations between farmer leaders and the government regarding a legal guarantee of minimum support prices for crops, with no resolution reached during previous talks.
"We did not need to use any force because there was no resistance. The farmers cooperated well and they sat in buses themselves."
"On one hand, the government is negotiating with the farmer organizations, and on the other hand, it is arresting them."
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