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‘Delhi is our capital too’: A blow-by-blow account of the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day -Vijayta Lalwani & Supriya Sharma

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Attention came to be fixed on protestors hurling flags on top of the Red Fort, eclipsing scenes of Delhi residents welcoming farmers to the city.

When the first wave of tractors triumphantly drove down the national highway north of Delhi around 9 am on January 26, the most conspicuous symbol was the Indian tricolour. It dominated all other flags – the saffron-coloured Nishan Sahib, the flag of the Sikh Khalsa Panth, as well as the multihued flags of various farmer unions.

By afternoon, however, only one scene was being played on a loop on television news: the unfurling of the Nishan Sahib atop the Red Fort. Some commentators were quick to connect the flag – wrongly – to Khalistani groups that demand a separate Sikh homeland, echoing government claims of a conspiracy lurking behind the farmer protests.

But if there is a conspiracy, then lakhs of Indians are part of it – and quite openly, for that matter.

On the morning of India’s Republic Day, as the President and Prime Minister watched colourful tableaux float down the Rajpath, hundreds and thousands of farmers marched towards the city from three directions: Singhu in the north, a hub for Sikh protestors from Punjab; Tikri in the west, dominated by Jats from Haryana; and Ghazipur in the southeast, with a mix of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

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