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Modi regime steps up repression of farmers opposing its pro-agribusiness laws
“There were several layers of security,” noted an
Indian Express report: “two heavy layers of metal barricading (along with spools of razor wire); a layer of large stone boulders; followed by a layer of (more than 2,000) nails (embedded on the road) and a layer of concrete barricades. A few meters ahead of that was another layer of stone boulders, followed by yet another layer of concrete barricades after a few meters.”
Anyone thinking that this was a description of a war zone would be badly mistaken. The report describes just one element in the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s mounting campaign of repression against farmers who are encamped on the borders of India’s capital, Delhi, as part of a protest against its pro-agribusiness farm laws.
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1 LIMITATION: Rakesh Tikait (left) possibly lacks the organisation, cadre and resources to set up the BKU as an autonomous political entity. PTI
Radhika Ramaseshan
Senior Journalist
OVER two months after the farmers’ protests began at Delhi’s borders, the incipient signs of a more direct engagement between the political Opposition and the agitators are showing up. The Opposition stepped out of the breathless and bizarre microcosm of Facebook and Twitter to set its foot on terra firma, and check out the travails of people who braved the cold and rain and are living without water and electricity. The Opposition’s forays into ground zero might not yield anything tangible. It is unlikely to pressure the Centre to resume a dialogue with the farmers, considering that the government refused to accede to the Opposition’s demand for a separate discussion on the issue in the ongoing Parliament session. But the initiative opens up the prospect of a partnership between a civ