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Farmers’ Protest: The Right To Protest Vs Public Inconvenience

A protest must have visibility without which it is an exercise in futility, says a senior advocate.

Farmers gather at a protest site on the Delhi-Haryana border crossing in Singhu, Delhi, India, on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
Farmers gather at a protest site on the Delhi-Haryana border crossing in Singhu, Delhi, India, on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
The year 2020 has been called the year of the resurrection of dissent in India by some commentators. The year began with the continuation of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and is ending with farmer groups sitting in protest on some roads that serve as entry points of the national capital.But a curious problem has cropped up that questions how protests ought to take place and in doing so may threaten the very act of pr...
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