As voting nears, it’s payback time in Punjab https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/as-voting-nears-its-payback-time-in-punjab/ Memories of resistance and popular action, both old and recent ones, run deep in Punjab. It was just 28 months ago, that people in this state stopped Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a flyover in Ferozepur. Today, they block his party’s candidates at the villages. Satyapal Malik – twice appointed Governor of different states by the Modi government – had this to say to the party that gave him those posts: “Punjabis don’t forget their enemies easily.”
Punjab farmers’ 11 posers to BJP: Candidates, leaders, workers will be asked questions during village visits https://www.dailypioneer.com/2024/state-editions/punjab-farmers----11-posers-to-bjp--candidates--leaders--workers-will-be-asked-questions-during-village-visits.html Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Farmers’ 11 Posers to BJP
1. Why were the roads blocked by digging them with iron rods? Who put up barricades, fired bullets and teargas shells on farmers during their agitation? Are we foreigners that we were not allowed to go to Delhi?
2. Why was young farmer Shubhkaran was martyrs in police firing? What led to the injuries of 400 farmers and the destruction of their tractors?
3. Why hasn't the government implemented Dr MS Swaminathan's report? What prevents in granting legal status to Minimum Support Price (MSP) as per C2 plus 50 percent?
4. Why haven't the perpetrators of Lakhimpur Kheri killings been brought to justice? Why is Ajay Mishra Teni still in the Union Cabinet despite his involvement?
5. Why haven't all cases filed against farmers during the Delhi protests been withdrawn?
6. If corporate debts can be forgiven, what obstacles prevent the waiver of farmers' debts?
7. Why was the Electricity Amendment Bill introduced in the Parliament despite promises to the contrary?
8. Why hasn't agriculture been exempted from the scope of pollution laws?
9. Why have you sold the country to corporates by way of corruption through Electoral bonds?
10. Why were control over Bhakhra and Pong Dams taken away from Punjab through the Dam Safety Act?
11. Why are Punjab's markets being disrupted under the pretext of setting up silos?