-Newsclick.in No scheme touches them, no Law reaches them – but they hope that a better deal for farmers will benefit them. At the Ghazipur border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, Manish and a few of his friends have joined the farmers’ dharna only a few days back. They live in Baghpat district, barely a few dozen kilometres from the protest site but it could be another continent, or another age. “In the...
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Agri Laws: Uttarakhand farmers start free bus service to Delhi protest site -Vineet Upadhyay
-The New Indian Express More than 20,000 farmers from the district have joined others in Delhi at the protest site. DEHRADUN: Farmers from Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand have started a free bus service to ferry farmers to Delhi where their counterparts have been protesting against the newly passed agri Laws. The service which started on Saturday will be available twice a week on Monday and Thursday. "The expenses will be borne by...
More »Ujjain house demolition: Mockery of rule of Law, says former SC judge -Apurva Vishwanath
-The Indian Express On December 26, the house of Abdul Rafeeq was razed by the administration who came looking for suspects in the stone-pelting incident caught on video the previous day. Officially, the demolition was carried out as the structure was allegedly illegal. New Delhi: The manner in which the a house was demolished in Begum Bagh, a Muslim-dominated locality in Ujjain, a day after a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha rally was...
More »Kisan Protests Are More About Survival of the Peasantry -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The three agri Laws brought in by the Narendra Modi government are meant to remove the lifeline of peasants altogether and have to be repealed. The kisans gathered around the Delhi border have unerringly put their fingers on the real issue confronting them, namely their very survival as peasants. Till now there was an arrangement in the country which, though crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, still kept the peasantry alive....
More »Women Rise in Anger at Farm Law Protests Breaking Patriarchy and Stereotypes -Vivek Gupta
-Newsclick.in One of the fascinating fallouts of the protests by farmers at the border of Delhi has been the emergence of women in the forefront taking charge. Women have also been active in protests against the farm bills in Punjab. If young women were the star attraction during last year’s anti-CAA protests, it is the women from Punjab villages who caught the nation’s attention by their overwhelming presence at the historic farm...
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