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In high spirits, farmers at Delhi's Singhu border unmindful of dip in protesters' footfall Except for a brief period after the Republic Day violence, which saw attrition of protesters, the site has been active since the farmers camped here in November last year. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- After surviving the winter, the farmer protesters at Singhu border are bracing for a punishing summer. (Photo| EPS) Express News Service NEW DELHI: Beyond the concrete barricades and concertina wires put up by the Delhi police at Singhu, a seemingly unending line of tractors and trailers rests on the...

Alleging that notices are being served on people backing the agitation against the farm laws, BKU leader Balbir Singh Rajewal on Sunday asked farmers to gherao Delhi Police personnel if they come to their villages to make an arrest. The BKU (Rajewal) leader also asked the Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government that the state police should not cooperate with the Delhi cops. If the Delhi Police personnel come to arrest you, gather the entire village and oppose them," Rajewal told farmers at a "Kisan-Mazdoor Ekta Maha Rally in Punjab's Barnala on Sunday. The rally was organised by the Bharti ...

Gherao Delhi cops if they come to arrest you, BKU leader tells farmers as more events announced to escalate protest BKU leader Balbir Singh Rajewal alleged that those serving 'langar' or extending help to farmers at the protest sites near Delhi borders are being issued notices by police. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Farmers stage a protest at Tikri border during their ongoing 'Delhi Chalo' agitation against Centre's new farm laws in New Delhi. (File Photo | PTI) By PTI CHANDIGARH: Alleging that notices are being served on people backing the agitation against the farm laws, BKU leader ...

  The increasing intolerance of the ruling dispensation at the centre towards legitimate dissent is a reflection on the state of democracy. This has been borne out by the arrest of journalists, activists, lawyers, poets, and students, trolling of public intellectuals, and hounding of public-spirited media organisations. The government, using its ever-present spectre of policing, is wielding imprisonment, suspicion, and ­direct violence as its strategy to deal with dissent and protest. The government has become more intolerant, particularly of the farmers’ protests, because these represent...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36825 Release Nodeep Kaur and Shiv Kumar! Submitted by AWL on 16 February, 2021 - 7:38 Author: Mohan Sen The Modi government’s repression against Indian farmers’ protests ( Solidarity581) could signal the Hindu-nationalist regime’s panic-stricken weakening and decline, or the onset of an even more consolidated authoritarianism. The repression is harsh and escalating. About two hundred farmers have died as a result of protracted living in protest camps over the winter, and about twenty have committed suicide. A smaller numb...