The ongoing farmers agitation at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders demanding revocation of three farm laws terming them as anti farmer and pro capitalists likely to harm the farmers of the country including demanding enactment of a new concrete law on MSP is gaining momentum despite being a three month old movement. About eighty and ninety farmers are reported to have died in these agitation with some committing tragic suicides. What is unique about this movement is that despite the violence on the Republic day in various parts of the national capital including unfurling of the Sikh flag of Nishan Sahib amounting to an act of sacrilege with Kisan leaders of Samyukta Sangarsh Samittee denouncing these arbitrary acts in strongest possible terms and arrest of those involved, the movement is gaining more and more strength day by day.
Till date unaccounted numbers of Kisan Panchayats have been organised in various parts of Western Uttar Pradesh and states of the country like Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh n Rajasthan etc in which thousands and thousands of farmers marked their presence with majority of them particiating on daily basis at Ghazipur and other venues of farmers protests and sit in. The undisputed leader of the Bhartiya Kisan Union and son of the legendary Kisan leader and icon Mahendra Singh Tikaith, Rakesh Tikaith has emerged at the tallest and strongest leader of the agitating farmers who is being invited by farmers in almost all the Mahapanchayats in every state enticing unacounted number of farmers and workers and people across political spectrum and caste lines. The craze for Rakesh Tikath is such that farmers alongwith their families and workers of all the political parties are joining him at the Ghazipur border. Till now leaders of all the political parties minus BJP n NDA have personally shared his stage at Ghazipur venue and extended their unconditional support with several political lawmakers resigning from Assembly seats in support of the ongoing agitation. A senior reporter of ABP news Rakshit Singh has also resigned today in Meerut Mahapanchayat publically extending open support to the farmers cause accusing the ABP management of pressurising him to wrongly n unauthentically report the Kisan movement by showing empty or less crowded areas or Mahapanchayats intentionally inorder to defame the ongoing farmers struggle n movement.
From February 23 rd in Sikar Rajasthan to the Mahapanchayat of Kirari, Rajasthan lakhs of people, that included farmers, dalits and Meena community men and women extending their unconditional open support to Kisan leader Rakesh Tikaith has unambiguously established the fact that not only the farmers but people from all sections of the society breaking caste barriers have now joined the farmers movement at the pan India level to extend their uncinditional support to Rakesh Tikaith, Samyukta Sangharsh Samittee and the ongoing agitation indicating for sure that this may be a game changer in the near future.
Tremendous crowd cutting across caste n ideological lines at Kirari Mahapanchayat, Rajasthan
Niharika Ghia
Fake farmers protest intiated by Congress to topple Union govt will not frutify in any way in next Lok Sabha elections. Currently more than 10 round of talks formed by Supreme court committee have been successfully completed with many other farm leaders ….without Mr.Tikait.
This aandolan seems to applease the Jaat community at large to regain its lost votes
The several bands called by opposition parties have failed miserably n people are rather annoyed about the 26Jan event.
Congress trying to whitewash sins of 1984 and attempts to woo Sikhs by showing poor image of Modi might just help them in Punjab, Haryana elections to great extent while the politicians who have lost their identity in Uttar Pradesh are simply trying to popularize themselves by instigating the illiterate poor farmers just to gain confidence
Why has Arminder Singh not said a word against Khalistan ? And why international involvement in domestic issues ? All this is self explanatory regarding the plastic aandolan.
In short Modi will return to power in 2024 with more seats than 2019. Country cannot pay price due to a group of foolish and selfish politicians. A lot can be discussed but this comment will get too long.
Meanwhile please get yourself an RTI COPY of a farmer commission set up in Punjab over a year back where Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and group of Agriculturists and reformers had handled over to CM Arminder Singh. And he refused to implement them . This was before the farm laws passed in parliament
Rest time will tell