Farmers Agitation

Farmers Protest | किसानों को जबरन हटाया तो सरकारी कार्यालयों में लगाएंगे टेंटः Rakesh Tikait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ihphxu0rc  NDTV India Oct 31, 2021  Farmers Protest: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait has said that if efforts are made to forcibly remove the farmers, we will convert government offices into Galla Mandi. Rakesh Tikait has given this warning in the midst of a standoff between farmer leaders and police administration over the removal of barricades from Ghazipur and Tikri Border in Delhi and fully opening the way. 

Bhanu Pratap, Advocate on behalf of SKM on the allegation as to who blocked the road, police or agitators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKEiaXFGl0  Oct 22, 2021

Police removing barricades:  दिल्ली बॉर्डर पर हलचल तेज kisan andolan | farmers protest | ghazipur border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VZXCSEOK94  Oct 29, 2021

The Standard Operating Procedure seems to be to distance agitators, demonstrators from members of the Public even if it is at the cost of inconveniencing them more, lest they develop a sympathy for the cause..

JCB machines remove barricades at Ghazipur, Tikri borders  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aUGh47UOi8 Oct 29, 2021

अभी अभी गाजीपुर बॉर्डर से बड़ी खबर! kisan andolan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMQr30pqhU BCS news Oct 29, 2021

Rakesh Tikait's Comments On Borders Being Cleared  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5xsnTUtujw |

डॉ सुनीलम: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiXYIRE1zsiakT5RF4DbfvFe-bOo?e=Hxdaf7 
किसानों को न्याय दिलाने का ऐतिहासिक आंदोलन: दशा और दिशा  

The strength of the movement led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha is the farmer activists of 550 farmer organizations who have declared that till the law is not repealed, there will be not return home.
All decisions of the movement are taken after a long process of deliberation. The 32 Jathabandis of Punjab discuss any issue first. The working group members of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee also discuss at their level and a decision is taken in the open meeting of Samyukta Kisan Morcha as accepted by all organizations.

Meanwhile, the central government is working on a strategy to tire the agitators and compromise them with neglect, but the base of the movement is expanding. Public opinion is also constantly changing in favor. However, Godi Media has left no stone unturned to defame the entire movement. Despite this, farmers are being successful in taking their messages to the villages through social media.

See Hindi original with google translate in English.. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiXYIRE1zsiakT5RF4DbfvFe-bOo?e=Hxdaf7 

What Today’s Farm Protests Share with Vallabhbhai Patel’s Bardoli Satyagraha  Ramachandra Guha https://janataweekly.org/what-todays-farm-protests-share-with-vallabhbhai-patels-bardoli-satyagraha/
October 17, 2021

The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, which was led and organised by Vallabhbhai Patel, emphatically demonstrated the power and potential of non-violence in the cause of peasant self-respect. In this struggle, kisans in rural Gujarat mobilised against the oppressive agrarian policies of the colonial state.

Almost a hundred years separate the peasant struggle that Patel led in Bardoli with the kisan andolan of today. Yet the parallels are hard to miss. On the one side, the role of women in sustaining the movement, and the quiet heroism of the satyagrahis, who have braved winter, summer, monsoon and a pandemic and kept their struggle going. On the other side, the attempt by the state to stall and delay, to divide the movement, and to spread falsehoods about its leaders.

Back in the 1920s, the collaborators with the raj included Brahmin revenue officials and hired goons brought in from outside Gujarat. Now, in the 2020s, it is the police and the godi media that aid the postcolonial state, the first in suppressing the peasants, the second in distorting their message and defaming their leaders.

Indeed, in the range of repressive methods used against the farmers – water cannons, the installation of metal spikes on roads, internet shutdowns, hate-filled propaganda – the Modi-Shah regime has exceeded even the White Man’s raj.

“it is a fact beyond challenge that India has given a singular proof to the world that mass non-violence is no longer the idle dream of a visionary or a mere human longing. It is a solid fact capable of infinite possibilities for a humanity which is groaning, for want of faith, beneath the weight of violence of which it has become almost a fetish. The greatest proof that our movement was non-violent lies in the fact that the peasants falsified the fears of our worst sceptics. They were described as very difficult to organise for non-violent action and it is they who stood the test with a bravery and an endurance that was beyond all expectations. Women and children too contributed their great share in the fight. They responded to the call by instinct and played a part which we are too near the event adequately to measure. And I think it would be not at all wrong to give them the bulk of the credit for preservation of non-violence and the consequent success of the movement.” - Sardar Patel, 1931