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| Indian landless marchers halted |
| Police in Indian capital Delhi, have prevented tens of thousands of landless farmers and indigenous people from marching to protest at parliament.
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| INDIA
, 29-October-2007
2:36:34 AM |
| Some of the landless have been on a month-long protest to demand land reform and ownership rights laws.
The protesters, mostly low-caste tenant farmers and landless indigenous people, say they have been left behind by India's economic boom.
The government has promised to set up a commission to examine land reform.
Chanting and singing, tens of thousands of people are staging a sit-down protest at a large, dusty carnival ground in the heart of Delhi, says the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi.
For the past month, they have marched across India, hoping to take their protest to the Indian government.
The protesters waved flags and chanted "give us land, give us water", as they marched in long, orderly lines into the centre of the capital.
But, our correspondent says, police have blocked their way and for the moment there is a stand-off.
The protesters have already met Sonia Gandhi, president of the ruling Congress Party and they hope to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.
They are calling for a national authority to oversee land reform and a system of fast track courts to deal with the long delays in resolving land disputes.
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