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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sikar: No Longer Just a Farmers' Movement, But a People's Movement for Farmers -Neha Mishra

Sikar: No Longer Just a Farmers' Movement, But a People's Movement for Farmers -Neha Mishra

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published Published on Sep 17, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 17, 2017
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Report from the nerve-centre of the massive farmers' movement in Sikar, Rajasthan, which has won the support of people from all sections of society.

The Sikar district of Rajasthan has seen various mass movements in different times in the past. But nothing like what is happening today. Unlike many other cases where the middle class starts complaining whenever there is a mass agitation, this farmers’ movement, with its eleven genuine demands, has gathered huge support from the people of the region and even from the media.

The movement has stopped being just a farmers’ movement and has become a people’s movement for the farmers.

Here is a brief chronological summary of the inspiring, and peaceful, movement in Sikar, based on what we saw and the information we have collected.

16 June 2017 – The All India Kisan Sabha called for a meeting at Sikar’s Krishi Upaj Mandi where they talked about the crisis faced by the farmers in Rajasthan. They discussed and planned their future course of action. After the meeting, Amra Ram, mass leader and ex-MLA from the CPI(M), gave a call for a “Kisan Curfew” a month later, on 17th July.

Campaigns started across Sikar district by the Kisan Sabha, under the leadership of Amra Ram and Pema Ram, another popular leader. They covered the whole district, with more than a thousand villages and about 343 Panchayats.

17 July – A month after the first meeting at the Krishi Upaj Mandi, Sikar saw a successful curfew from 8 am till noon by the farmers. They had created some 40 gathering points to implement the curfew. They called it “Kisan chawki”, in a mock imitation of the police chawki since a curfew is usually called by the administration and implemented through police chawkis. The aim of this curfew was to do a “chakka jam”, to prevent government officers from travelling.

During this curfew, Amra Ram and Pema Ram after talking to the farmers declared that the government will have 10 days to talk to them. If the government refuses to talk, the agitation would be intensified, and the further course of action would be declared on 27th July.

27 July – The State Committee of the Kisan Sabha met at Krishi Upaj Mandi to decide on the further course of action. They declared that on 9th August, farmers across Rajasthan would court mass arrest at their local Tehsil headquarters.

After this decision, a massive campaign was carried out across the state for 13 days.

9 August – Farmers across the state voluntarily went for mass arrests. More than a thousand farmers in Sikar courted mass arrest.

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Newsclick.in, 12 September, 2017, https://newsclick.in/sikar-no-longer-just-farmers-movement-peoples-movement-farmers


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