Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana members stopped the Chennai-Ahmedabad Navjeevan Express at Malkapur station in Buldhana district while protesting against the farm laws.
Badri Narayan Choudhary, general secretary of RSS affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, tells ThePrint they support the farmer agitation but will not be part of the Bharat Bandh tomorrow.
Statement is being seen as an attempt to drive a wedge between protesting farmers from Punjab and Haryana, because SYL Canal is a long-standing issue between the two states.
The petition filed Friday stated that commuters are facing hardships due to road blockades and has sought directions on social distancing at protest site to contain spread of Covid.
Reading the ‘Writings on the Wall’, Shekhar Gupta has foreseen Punjab’s angry revolt from its descent into complacent, lazy, decadent trance of perpetual balle-balle.
The farmers protesting at the national capital's borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh continued to swell at Ghazipur, prompting the police to close the Delhi-UP border on NH-24.
The Modi govt claims the three new laws are re-creating the 1991 moment for agriculture. But those reforms were premised on decentralisation and deregulation.
Retired justices Mehtab Singh Gill, Ranjit Singh & Nawab Singh appeal to Modi govt to consider farmers’ demands with ‘open mind’, hit out at Haryana Police ‘brutality’.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
This is protest limited to rich farmers of Punjab and in a few other districts of some states. The vast majority of farmers in rest of the country, including poor farmers of Punjab have nothing to do with this agitation. The government needs to communicate this fact and the benefits of the new laws clearly to the citizens of this country. Why should everyone else subsidise the entitled few?
That is the narrative BJP Hindus want to peddle. But you live outside reality. The agitation is growing just like CAA-NRC, which ended only because of Covid. But this one is growing, Covid or no Covid. With CAA-NRC also, your type of Hindu thought only Muslims are affected, it is alright for you, why are they disturbing. When your existence is at threat, people will agitate. Likewise, farmer’s know the plan is to take their lands and give it to Adani. Their existence is at threat, so they will fight. And as for the conceited Brahmins like you, realise the farmers can burn all their produce and you will not have food.
What if the Centre throws the buck to the Punjab CM, to follow the new laws with amendment or revert to the old system prior to the law. Let the govt make it clear , that if the Punjab govt wants, they can revert to the old system. That the new system is optional so only the states which want to implement it will implement it.. This way , it can achieve two things. If the opposition states don’t want it, they are free to revert to the old system and face the same problems which has plagued the farmers. if the new system is better, surely the states which accept it, will surge ahead and the adamant farmers of non willing states, will realize sooner than later. Also the states which deliberately tried to portray the laws as taking away land from farmers, will have to deal with the consequence of playing negative politics , pay the price for it. Let this process of states accepting the new laws be made very clear so that the market system works flawlessly in those states .
This is protest limited to rich farmers of Punjab and in a few other districts of some states. The vast majority of farmers in rest of the country, including poor farmers of Punjab have nothing to do with this agitation. The government needs to communicate this fact and the benefits of the new laws clearly to the citizens of this country. Why should everyone else subsidise the entitled few?
That is the narrative BJP Hindus want to peddle. But you live outside reality. The agitation is growing just like CAA-NRC, which ended only because of Covid. But this one is growing, Covid or no Covid. With CAA-NRC also, your type of Hindu thought only Muslims are affected, it is alright for you, why are they disturbing. When your existence is at threat, people will agitate. Likewise, farmer’s know the plan is to take their lands and give it to Adani. Their existence is at threat, so they will fight. And as for the conceited Brahmins like you, realise the farmers can burn all their produce and you will not have food.
What if the Centre throws the buck to the Punjab CM, to follow the new laws with amendment or revert to the old system prior to the law. Let the govt make it clear , that if the Punjab govt wants, they can revert to the old system. That the new system is optional so only the states which want to implement it will implement it.. This way , it can achieve two things. If the opposition states don’t want it, they are free to revert to the old system and face the same problems which has plagued the farmers. if the new system is better, surely the states which accept it, will surge ahead and the adamant farmers of non willing states, will realize sooner than later. Also the states which deliberately tried to portray the laws as taking away land from farmers, will have to deal with the consequence of playing negative politics , pay the price for it. Let this process of states accepting the new laws be made very clear so that the market system works flawlessly in those states .