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India’s Farmers Are Facing Down Modi

An interview with
Amra Ram

Last year, India’s powerful farmer movement thwarted Narendra Modi’s plans to win an electoral supermajority. A communist leader of their movement explains how they’re turning the tide on the reactionary BJP.

A crowd of farmers with their heads wrapped in cloth running away from tear gas. Police who fired the tear gas seen in the background.

Indian police fired tear gas on December 6, 2024, at protesting farmers attempting to march to the capital New Delhi to push for their longstanding demand of guaranteed minimum prices for their crops. (Photo by Shammi Mehra / AFP / Getty Images)

Last year’s Indian general election was humbling for the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP, which had been boasting that it could win 400 or more seats, instead saw its seat share drop from 303 in 2019 to 240 this year and was obliged to form […]

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