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Modi launches mass repression against two-month-long farmer agitation India’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has seized upon the “violence” and “anarchy” that erupted in Delhi during a Jan. 26 Republic Day protest against its pro-agri-business laws to launch a long-prepared campaign to repress the farmers’ agitation through state intimidation and violence. Representatives of different religions walk in a march in support of the ongoing farmers protest, in Kolkata, India, Dec. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) This campaign is being spearheaded by the Delhi Police which are under the direct authority of Home Minister Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief henchman and the BJP state government in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh (UP). The latter is led by Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu high priest, ardent Hindu supremacist and political thug. ....