[India] Protests: Peaceful protest

Summary

Single-source ACLED detection — awaiting independent verification. Hundreds of tea garden workers from Rangagora tea estate in Tinsukia, Assam staged a one-hour protest march on April 2, 2025, demanding better wages, land rights, and improved working conditions. The demonstration was characterized as peaceful with low severity.

Supply chain impact

No commodities or chokepoints are directly mapped to this event. However, if the labor dispute escalates or spreads to other tea estates in Assam, it could disrupt tea production in one of India's major tea-growing regions, though the brief duration and peaceful nature of this specific protest suggests minimal immediate impact.

Watch points

• Monitor for additional labor actions across other tea estates in Assam or similar demands spreading to neighboring tea-producing districts
• Watch for any escalation in worker demands or management responses that could lead to longer-duration work stoppages