Women Not So Invisible In Farm Law Protests
Women farmers take valuable tips from women’s day march to reach out to a wider audience at home PTI outlookindia.com 2021-03-09T19:58:58+05:30
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A day after celebrating Women’s Day at farmers’ protest sites, most of the ladies are back – or on way – home to attend to household and agricultural chores.
But for many of them, it was a hands-on experience and learning which they intend to share with others in villages or at block-level.
Thousands of women farmers had joined protests against the Centre’s farm laws at the national capital’s borders on Monday, March 8. They had taken leadership and managed the event that day, marking it as Mahila Kisan Diwas.
Farmers protest: Samyukt Kisan Morcha writes to President Kovind, seeks end to repression
Hundreds of innocent farmers and others who are supporting their agitation have been lodged in jails and false cases registered against them.
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Farmers during their protest against Centres farm laws at Ghazipur border in New Delhi. (File Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS) By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The umbrella body of protesting farmer unions, Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), on Wednesday sent a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding an end to the government’s ‘repression’ against the farmers and their supporters.
Two letters written by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) resonated around the UP Gate agitation site on Wednesday as farmer leader Rakesh Tikait dared the central agency to make a move to evict the protesters, saying: “Sarkar to khali nahin kara saki to NHAI kis khet ki muli hai (When the state couldnt evict us, who is NHAI?)”
NEW DELHI: As the farmers stir against three new agriculture laws of the Centre inches towards the three-month mark, crowds at the major protest sites Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders visibly appear to be thinning, but the leaders maintain that their movement is now stronger than ever.
Even as the langars and tents at Delhi s borders appear vacant, the farmer leaders insist that the crowd is merely shifting from one spot to another to mobilise more people to join the movement. The crowd is not thinning at all. We are simply trying to decentralise the movement and mobilise people in villages and districts, and not just in Punjab and Haryana.
Two men accused of spreading fake videos on farmers protest were granted bail (File)
New Delhi:
The sedition law cannot be used to quieten the disquiet under the pretence of muzzling miscreants , a court in Delhi said while granting bail to two men accused of posting fake videos on Facebook on the farmer protests.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, while granting bail to Devi Lal Burdak and Swaroop Ram, who were arrested earlier this month for alleged sedition, said the use of Section 124 A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is a seriously debatable issue in the case before it.