In Photos | Hope, Anger and Democracy at the Mahila Kisan Sansad
For months, farmers have been demanding that the Central farm laws should be repealed.
The Mahila Kisan Sansad Underway. Photo: Yaqut Ali
Rights28/Jul/2021
After months of protests at the borders of Delhi, farmers were finally allowed to enter the national capital. With the monsoon session of parliament underway, a Kisaan Sansad (farmers’ parliament) of 200 people is also being held parallelly at Jantar Mantar. Though it is located only 1.6 km away from the Parliament House, none of the 788 members of the lower and upper houses are interested in visiting the Kisan Sansad.
Kept Under House Arrest, Gujarat Farmers Leaders Disguise Themselves to Join Delhi Protests
A well known farmers leader told The Wire that the only reason that Gujarat farmers were not able to protest against the farm laws was strict police surveillance that made it difficult to leave the state.
Farmers who have made their way out of Gujarat at the Singhu border. Photo: By arrangement
Rights15/Dec/2020
Mohali: Farmer leaders from Gujarat â Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state â say they have had to disguise themselves to evade heavy police surveillance and join the protests against the farm laws.
Palbhai Ambaliya, Yakub Guraji and Jayesh Patel, along with other leaders and representatives from the farmers’ unions of Gujarat, had formed an umbrella organisation called the Gujarat Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, on December 6, to mobilise support for the âDelhi Chaloâ protest by farmers in north India.