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Indian farmers stage a âRail Rokiâ on the railway lines
âTHE CENTRE of Indian Trade Unions vehemently denounces the utterly humiliating and derogatory statement by the Prime Minister against the struggling farmers and their supporters on the floor of Parliament,â said CITU General Secretary Tapan Sen in a major statement last week.
He continued: âThe Prime Minister called the struggling farmers demanding repeal of the draconian farm laws and Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 âAndolan-jeeviâ (beggars movement) influenced by âForeign Destructive Ideologyâ (FDI).
âUnnerved by the growing support for the farmersâ demands and their determined struggle to achieve their just demands the Prime Minister has resorted to ridiculing âandolanâ itself, the basic right of the people in India and the pillar of a democratic society.
Navreet Singh s grandfather Hardeep Singh Dibdiba with Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in Jalandhar on Tuesday.
JALANDHAR: Hardeep Singh Dibdiba, grandfather of young farmer Navreet Singh who was killed during tractor parade in Delhi on January 26, has urged the farm union leaders to strongly raise the issue of violence inflicted on farmers by the Delhi Police, of which his grandson became a victim.
“Farm leaders showed weakness and apparently got carried away by the false narrative set by the government. They should now speak out on the violence inflicted on farmers who entered Delhi and push the issue into centre stage to seek justice. The government indulged in false propaganda and ‘aggressors’ played the victim card to defame our movement,” he said.
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On January 26, Navreet Singh, a twenty-five-year-old farmer from Uttar Pradesh, in the north of India, hopped on a blue tractor and accelerated toward a police barricade erected in the middle of the street. It was supposed to be a celebratory day for India the seventy-second anniversary of India’s democratic constitution but instead, tens of thousands of farmers like Singh had shown up in the heart of New Delhi to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest farm laws, which they saw as favoring private corporations over their interests. Moments later, Singh was dead.
At least nine journalists have been targeted by police by arrests, intimidation and criminal charges over reporting and online posts about the ongoing farmers’ protest in India since protests began in November 2020. The protests reached a climax on January 26, with death of protestor Navreet Singh. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliate Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemn the tactics used to suppress media.