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Indian landless march into Delhi
They are protesting against government-backed industrial projects which they say have forced them off their land. “Forty percent of Indians are now landless and 23% of them are in abject poverty,” march organiser Puthan Vithal Rajgopal told AFP news agency.
“Such conditions have bred Maoist insurgency in 172 of India’s 600 districts and farmers are killing themselves in 100 other districts. So we want to ask the government, where are the fruits of the reforms in these districts?”
