Police officers sit outside their makeshift post that was set up to guard the house of Guru Sevak Singh, a farmer, after his brother Guruvinder Singh was killed during a farmers' protest in Lakhimpur Kheri last month, in Mohraniya village of the Bahraich district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, November 19, 2021.

In the village of Mohraniya, some 500 km by road east of the capital New Delhi and located in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, farmer Guru Sevak Singh said that he and others like him lost faith in Modi and his party.

"Today Prime Minister Modi realised that he was committing blunder, but it took him a year to recognise this and only because he now knows farmers will not vote for his party ever again," said Singh.

Around him were several police officers, who Singh said were provided after his brother and three others were killed by the car.

Leaders of six farmer unions who spearheaded the movement in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab states said they would not forgive a government that labelled protesting farmers as terrorists and anti-nationals.

Leaders of the opposition and some analysts said Modi's move was linked to state elections next year in Uttar Pradesh - which accounts for more parliamentary seats than any other state - and Punjab.