Can the Farmersâ Protest Be the Beacon for Consolidation of the Polity?
The polarisation caused by traditional bases of political and electoral mobilisation means that new methods are required. The farmers protest has transcended these divisions.
Farmers raise slogans at Ghazipur border as they observe a hunger strike on Mahatma Gandhi s death anniversary. Photo: PTI
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First they came for the rationalists (Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi), and I did not speak out â because I was not sure I was a rationalist.
Then they came for Dalits (Rohith Vermula, Bhima Koregaon), and I did not speak out â because I was not a Dalit.
Cases have been filed in 5 states so far, the latest being in Delhi on Saturday, against Congress Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists over their allegedly misleading tweets on the violence
Let Centre Tell Farmers Why Can t It Repeal Farm Laws: Rakesh Tikait We have an ideological fight with the government, something which can neither be fought with sticks and guns nor suppressed by them. The farmers will return home only when the new laws are repealed, the BKU national spokesperson asserted.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait addresses protesters at Ghazipur, January 30, 2021. Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist
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Ghaziabad: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday asked the Centre to explain to farmers why it does not want to repeal the three farm laws.
Tikait appeared to make the conciliatory offer to the government from a position of strength amid swelling support for farmers’ stir with hundreds of villagers pouring in at the key protest site, Ghazipur’s UP Gate on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.
Farmers tractor rally violence: 38 cases filed, 84 arrested; a look at action taken by police so far across India Cases have been filed in 5 states so far, the latest being in Delhi on Saturday, against Congress Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists over their allegedly misleading tweets on the violence FP Staff January 31, 2021 15:00:49 IST Tens of thousands of protesting farmers drove long lines of tractors into Delhi on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades, defying tear gas and storming the historic Red Fort as the nation celebrated Republic Day. AP
Five days since the violence during the farmers’ tractor day parade on Republic Day, a host of police cases have been filed in multiple states, including Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The Delhi Police have so far filed 38 cases and arrested 84 people in connection to the