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Farmers set to block highways across Karnataka on February 6
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They want to express solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi
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They want to express solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi
Farmers’ unions have announced that they will block major State and national highways on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. in solidarity with a similar ‘chakka jam’ protest in Delhi announced by Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisation of farmers leading the protest against farm laws at the borders of Delhi.
G.C. Bayyareddy, State convenor, All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee, said farmers’ unions will block highways in all major districts, including Bengaluru, Mysuru and Hubballi-Dharwad. “It will be a peaceful protest,” he said.
The farmer union leader vows unity of protesters after the Republic Day events
For months, government spokespersons and a section of the media were looking for a leader among the consortium of more than three dozen farmer unions protesting against the farm laws. On the night of January 28, they finally found one in Rakesh Tikait, the national spokesperson of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, who broke down before the media, alleging that there’s a “conspiracy against farmers”.
His critics might call his emotional outburst a smart political move but Rakesh Tikait, the second son of Mahendra Singh Tikait, the mercurial farmer leader who revived the BKU in the late 1980s with a string of dramatic protests in Muzaffarnagar and Meerut against the then Congress government, provided a new spark with his tears and tenacity to the dying embers at the Ghazipur border protest site. Till January 28, the BKU was just playing a supporting role at Singhu and Tikri.
Trust deficit, difference of opinion hit farmers protest
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At the Singhu border, the first protest camp is of Punjab-based Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) of Satnam Singh Pannu, the organisation which has been blamed for deviating from the parade route. It led the rail roko movement last September. Even after other unions decided to let passenger trains to operate, KMSC continued to block the tracks.
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The farmer leaders put the blame on Satnam Singh Pannu (not in picture), leader of the KMSC, for the violence in Delhi during the tractor rally
New Delhi: Differences and lack of trust among farmers’ unions have made it difficult for them to manage the narrative and the protest at Delhi’s borders. Though the unions have kept a distance from political parties, differences between the unions have posed a problem for them.
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