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Green Left spoke to Kavita Krishnan, leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Secretary of the All-India Progressive Women’s Association and participant in the farmers’ struggle against the Modi regime.
“The protests are still strong, the farmers are determined that they will not go back and they will not end the protests until the three laws are repealed.” said Krishnan.
It is the harvest season in Punjab and farmers are taking turns going back and forth to deal with the harvest simultaneously with the protest.
“The protesters have a lot of support from the Indian public,” said Krishnan.
Rashtriya Lok Dal president Ajit Singh on Tuesday alleged that BJP supporters want to suppress the farmers opposition to the new contentious agriculture laws by the use of force. The RLD chief said this during his visit to Soram village here a day after a clash between supporters of his party and the BJP in the presence of Union minister Sanjeev Balyan, which resulted in injuries to three to four people. Citing the ongoing farmers protest against the new farm laws in Delhi, Singh, a former Union minister, alleged that the BJP-led government has made it a habit to use force to suppress any farmer s voice.
Read more about Scanty and sketchy evidence : Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi on Business Standard. The judge termed the evidence produced by police as scanty and sketchy
A Delhi court on Monday sent 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi, arrested in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a toolkit on social media related to the farmers protest, to one day police custody. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma allowed custodial interrogation of Ravi after police said she was required to be confronted with co-accused. Ravi was produced before the court on expiry of her three-day judicial custody. The court on Friday had sent her to judicial custody after police had said her custodial interrogation was not required for the time being. The agency had said that it would seek her further custodial interrogation once co-accused Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk join the interrogation on February 22.