India rebukes UK MPs

    India has rebuked UK MPs for criticising its handling of long-running farmers' protests in Delhi.

    Several Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National Party MPs on Monday expressed concern over the safety of protesters and the status of press freedom in India.

    But India's High Commission in London said the parliamentary discussion was full of "false assertions".

    Indian farmers have been protesting for months against agricultural reforms.

    Thousands of them have been camped on the outskirts of the capital Delhi, demanding the government repeal the laws, which seek to further open up India's farming sector to private players.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led government insist the laws will improve farmers' incomes. But farmers say the opposite will happen since the reforms give corporate companies greater bargaining power

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