Widows, Mothers of Farmers Who Died By Suicide Join Delhi Protests

Holding photographs of their kin, the women raised slogans against the new farm laws, at Delhi’s Tikri border.

Over 500 of Indian women – including widows and mothers of farmers, many of whom were believed to have killed themselves over farm debt – joined the ongoing protest against the controversial farm laws, at the Tikkri border on Wednesday, 16 December.

Holding photographs of their kin, these women raised slogans against the new laws as they sat in protest near a separate stage set up by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU).