Farmers Agitation

2021 State of Civil Society Report: https://civicus.org/documents/SOCS2021Part3.pdf#page=4

For many small farmers, the government’s changes threatened to undermine further their already precarious livelihoods. In the time of the pandemic, when so many people were struggling and worried, they questioned why the government saw fit to make such sweeping changes, and at such speed. They saw in the new laws an irreversible transfer of power away from small and medium farmers towards vast corporations. With reduced regulations, large companies would have the power to demand aggressively lower prices and greater discounts and build up stockpiles, against which small farmers would have little negotiating power. Protesting farmers therefore saw the changes as working in the interests of wealthy business owners, including those close to the Modi regime; anger focused on the Adani Group and Reliance, two large corporations headed by tycoons with close links to the Prime Minister. Many farmers switched their mobile phone provider from a Reliance-owned company to other firms as part of their protest.

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NAPM to Organise Action Programmes in More than 100 Districts in Support of Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s Call for Nation-wide Resistance Tomorrow https://napmindia.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/napm-to-organise-action-programmes-in-more-than-100-districts-in-support-of-samyukt-kisan-morchas-call-for-nation-wide-resistance-tomorrow/

Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal: ‘If we get Covid, it’s Modi’s fault’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCULnH633yQ

किसान आंदोलन के छह महीने पूरे ! । FARMERS PROTESTS । FARM LAWS  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cks5_W7j008

Delhi Police chargesheet claims R-Day violence at Red Fort 'well-planned conspiracy'  The Delhi Police chargesheet filed in connection with the case relating to violence at Red Fort on Republic Day, has claimed that there was a conspiracy to capture the Red Fort and convert it into a site for the farmers agitating against the Central agriculture laws,  According to the sources, the chargesheet filed by the police has claimed that the violence was part of a well-planned conspiracy and an occasion like Republic Day was chosen to tarnish the image of the Central government at home and abroad.
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/delhi-police-chargesheet-claims-r-day-violence-at-red-fort-well-planned-conspiracy20210527101635/

Full chargesheet details revealed on TIMES NOW. 'Objective was to occupy Red Fort.' Details by Priyank Tripathi. TIMES NOW's Prashant speaks to farmer leader Rakesh Tikait over Delhi Police's chargesheet into R-Day violence. 'We had no plans to hold protest at the Red Fort.'  https://youtu.be/s8OrO3kEu8Y?t=256  Tikait also says many demonstrations have taken place at Red Fort. And if the Morcha wanted to have it they would have informed the police..  After cutting abruptly from the interview, Times now anchor confidently says that the conspiracy was being planned three months before!!

R-Day Violence: Delhi Police Files Charge Sheet Against 16 Accused https://www.thequint.com/news/law/republic-day-violence-police-files-chargesheet-against-16-accused The charge sheet states that the protesters indulged in “violent confrontation with security forces”.

Of the 3,224 pages in the chargesheet, 250 detail how the entire ‘conspiracy’ was hatched and executed.Sources in the Delhi Police stated that Deep Sidhu and Lakha Sidhana have been named as the main conspirators in the case. The names of many prominent farmer leaders have also been included in the chargesheet. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/delhi-police-chargesheet-deep-sidhu-republic-day-violence-1805523-2021-05-22

Jun 19, 2021  Farmers protest on Republic Day was plotted; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3it_cEFtVMY  Times Now calls is Desh droh in the name of dharna | the Delhi Police had given permission to the farmers to peacefully protest and follow a pre-decided path. Rather, the path of the protest was changed, and Red Fort was captured by the farmers, leaving a rampage and massive distraction on their way. A fresh charge sheet and investigation in the case, has revealed it to be a conspired task force. “Delhi Police will only talk in favor of people who administer them,” says, Choudhary Avneet Panwar, National President, Kisan Sena. The caption by Times Now on youtube says

Court acknowledges charges & Summons all accused for trail on June 29

it is a serious dent in to "spontaneous protest" narrativepushed by Kisan netas

https://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-53/53-45/53-45-Whither%20Farmers%20Struggle.html  Achin Vanaik