-The Hindu The addition of local agrarian demands into the call for the repeal of the farm laws may have forced the Government’s hand The repeal of the three farm laws by the Union government, on Friday, marks a historic victory for the farmer’s movement in India. For more than a year, thousands of farmers had barricaded delhi, and their protests were gradually evolving into a pan-Indian movement of resistance. The belated,...

-TheWire.in The repeal of the three farm laws came about not because the PM failed to ‘persuade’ some farmers, but because many farmers stood resolute, even as a craven media devalued their struggle and strength. What the media can never openly admit is that the largest, peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – certainly the greatest organised at the height of the pandemic – has won a mighty victory.  A...

-NDTV.com Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao also demanded the central government to give ₹ 25 lakh to the families of the farmers who died and withdraw all cases against the protesting farmers. Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Saturday announced ₹ 3 lakh as compensation each to the families of the 750 farmers who died while protesting against the Centre's farm laws at delhi borders. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao also demanded the...

-Newsclick.in It is the first significant reverse suffered by the government, which is promoting neoliberalism at breakneck speed. The announcement of the repeal of the three farm laws almost a year after farmers launched a massive movement against the Narendra Modi government’s contentious decision in which 671 protesters lost their lives is a setback to the neoliberal move, which intended to further corporate encroachment in agriculture. The organisations leading the struggle have argued...

-The Hindu Bench identified with farmers while insisting on a speedy, impartial probe The Supreme Court’s intervention to protect the investigation in Uttar Pradesh following the murder of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, in which the son of a Union Minister is an accused, as well as the expressions of support for the farming community from the Bench of the Chief Justice of India created ripples days before the Prime Minister’s televised assurance...