-TheIndiaForum.in The protests in punjab are happening at a time when the agrarian economy is under stress. With increasing uncertainty, previously antagonistic groups across classes, castes & gender are coming closer, building a broader base for the agitation & beyond. punjab’s farmers have been unrelenting in their opposition to the new farm laws passed in September. Their sustained and creative opposition continues to make headlines. The central government too remains adamant and...
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CPIM’s All India Kisan Sabha plays key role in building solidarity for farmers’ protest -Saubhadra Chatterji
-Hindustan Times For the AIKS, the experience of 2014 movement against the land bill and the 2018 long march in Maharashtra came handy this time The CPIM in India had long mastered the art of issue-based support. It’s farmer arm, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), increasingly widened the scope of such pacts to stage big-ticket protests such as the ongoing farmers’ agitation in the National Capital Region. For the AIKS, a key participant...
More »Our way or the highway -Shriya Mohan
-The Hindu Business Line Farmers from punjab and Haryana have turned the Singhu border into a makeshift and vibrant village. The elderly peasants in kurta pyjamas and young men in track pants and sneakers who have gathered there are looking not for largesse — but just a fair deal * The laws seek to remove the guarantee of a minimum support price (MSP) and deregulate crop pricing, which, the farmers hold, will...
More »Why Farmers Are Worried About New Laws; It’s The History -Monika Mandal
-IndiaSpend.com The new farm laws that aim to double farmers’ income in two years by deregulating agricultural markets may further widen the inequalities in the sector, shows our analysis of similar legislations from the past. By weakening the government’s price guarantee system, the laws may end up hurting small and poor farmers, who form 80% of the sector and 23% of those who live below the poverty line, say critics. The privatisation...
More »‘Shame on the media’: Why protesting farmers are angry with the news coverage -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Indians are not being given the information they need to really understand why farmers are angry about the new agricultural laws, they say. Fifty-eight-year-old Jasbeer Singh listed the names of the places in Haryana where he had to negotiate police barriers before finally arriving at the state’s Singhu border with Delhi as he travelled from his home in punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district about 250 km away. Shambhu, between punjab and Haryana, had...
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