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‘Vibrant democracies’: India compares farmers’ protests to US Capitol Hill assault


February 5, 2021

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava on Thursday compared the ongoing farmers’ protests in India over new agricultural laws to the January 6 storming of the US Capitol by supporters of former US president Donald Trump, while hailing the two countries as “vibrant democracies”. The MEA spokesperson was responding to an earlier statement from the US State Department calling for …

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