Samyukt   Kisan Morcha 
Press Release                                                                    21st October, 2025, New Delhi

 SKM welcomes Judicial Enquiry on Ladakh Police Firing 

 Reiterates demands to repeal NSA; Release Sonam Wangchuk and other protesters 

 Accept Statehood & Status under 6th Schedule 

 Ensure employment, livelihood, No corporatisation of natural resources 
 
SKM welcomes the decision of the Union Government to have a judicial enquiry by former Supreme Court judge Justice B S Chouhan into the “circumstances leading to the serious law and order situation, the police action and the resultant unfortunate death of four individuals” on 24th September 2025 in Leh. A Kargil war veteran also died in the police firing and the judicial enquiry was a crucial demand of the democratic movement of Ladakh people.

SKM congratulates the Apex Body, Leh (ABL) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) that spearheading the people’s protest for taking the principled stand of no discussion with the Union government without announcing a probe into the police excesses on the people’s protest and also welcomes the decision to resume talks with the Union Government on 22nd October 2025. As per the reports, the dead bodies had multiple bullet wounds on torso and head. According to rules, police must use minimum force and if necessary then shots must be fired below the knee to disperse the unruly  mob only if it threatens the life of common people and public properties and all measures to control it fail while handling democratic protests of the citizens. SKM had demanded a judicial enquiry on the violence and the police firing and strict legal actions against all those responsible for excesses.  

SKM reiterates the demand for repeal of NSA and immediate release of Sonam Wangchuk, withdrawal of all cases against all the agitators, and grant status of Schedule 6 to people of Ladakh. Modi Govt. is serving the interests of the corporate forces above the interests of the people by misleadingly labelling the democratic movements and their patriotic leaders as anti-nationals and putting them in prison.

Ruling RSS-BJP has displayed utmost insensitivity in dealing with the issues of the sensitive border region, after dismantling the statehood of Jammu Kashmir and declaring Ladakh as a Union Territory. The long deprival has led to massive unemployment causing anger in the youth. Instead of generating employment and livelihood for the local people, the Union Government was on a corporate mission to hand over natural resources of Ladakh to the corporate houses.

SKM extends solidarity to the democratic movement of the people of Ladakh fighting for their rights for statehood, livelihood and democratic rights and to end bureaucratic authoritarianism in the administration of the Union Territory. The heroic struggle of the people of Ladakh is an integral part of larger struggles to protect democracy across India. 

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 India Faces Specialty Fertiliser Price Jump As China Suspends Exports Affecting Not Just India But Global Markets  https://www.rozanaspokesman.com/farming/farmers-issues/211025/india-faces-specialty-fertiliser-price-jump-as-china-suspends-exports.html The suspension covers specialty fertilisers like TMAP (Technical Monoammonium Phosphate) and Urea-solution products like AdBlue, as well as conventional fertilisers such as DAP and urea... Chakraborty said specialty fertiliser prices, already at abnormally high levels, could rise 10-15 per cent due to the Chinese export curbs... India consumes around 250,000 tonnes of specialty fertilisers annually, with 60-65 per cent used during the rabi season, which runs from October to March.

How Nicobar’s corals disappeared on government maps https://scroll.in/article/1087919/how-nicobars-corals-disappeared-on-government-maps Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size..

Apart from Galathea Bay, the 2020 map prepared by the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management in Chennai, which functions under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, also showed coral reefs hugging several other shores of the Great Nicobar, particularly in the south and the west.

But an updated map prepared by the same institute in 2021 contains a dramatic change. In this map, corals are completely missing along the coast of the Great Nicobar, including in Galathea Bay. Instead, they are marked in the middle of the sea, away from the shores.

Dreams of a Maoist India    https://aeon.co/essays/the-rise-and-now-fall-of-the-maoist-movement-in-india rAHU pANDITA 
India’s Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases In her research in central Bihar in 1995-96, the Indian sociologist Bela Bhatia concluded that the Maoist leaders ‘have taken little interest in enhancing the quality of life in the villages.’ In fact, these leaders regarded development ‘as antagonistic to revolutionary consciousness,’ she wrote in 2005.

In the meantime, the Indian state was growing impatient with the Maoists. In 2010, a London-based securities house report predicted that making the Maoists go away could unlock $80 billion of investment in eastern and central India. New Delhi began preparations for a large-scale operation to get rid of them. But, before that, the extraordinary arrest in 2009 of the Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy in Delhi heightened political interest in the insurgents.
India’s Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases

 (2014? )Hindu nationalism was on the rise in India and, in the coming years, this term would become a ruse for the government to suppress all activism, resulting in the incarceration of civil rights activists like the human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj. What also did not help is the number of body bags – of forces killed in Maoist ambushes – going to different parts of the country.

As anti-Maoist operations go on with even more rigour, a handful of those still inside the forest will ultimately surrender or be killed. How history remembers them is too early to say; but it is a fact that, had it not been for them, the much-needed focus on the hinterland of DK would not have been there. 

 research article  based on empirical observations and focussed group discussions with farmers in tail end regions of Cauvery Delta. how farmer groups in these areas are adopting pulse cultivation from cotton to stabilize cropping cycles, buffer against market volatility across local and global markets, and avoid debt traps linked to Bt cotton farming. 

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Landless, nameless, essential: The story of India's women farmers  https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/landless-nameless-essential-the-story-of-indias-women-farmers-3764318 Kavitha Kuruganti, October 15 is observed by the United Nations as International Rural Women’s Day and in India as Women Farmers’ Day.  Although the National Policy For Farmers (2007) provided a clear and expansive definition of a "farmer", delinking it from land ownership and thereby including various categories of women farmers, this definition has not been implemented on the ground. 

The day is also a reminder that most of these women still lack recognition and identity as farmers in their own right.

While patriarchy has placed most assets in men's hands, the least that the Government of India can do is redirect its DBT/DIT schemes to women farmers in agri-households. Progressive policies are also needed to redistribute asset ownership between men and women, with active incentives for gender equity.

https://thewire.in/tech/zoho-arattai-ulaa-and-questions-of-sovereignty-in-swadeshi-ware  

The rise of swadeshi-ware can be beneficial to companies that sell their products and use nationalism as a mask for marketing. But they can be detrimental to the public, with no clear respect towards the right to privacy in India. The priority towards promoting swadeshi-ware is not seen anywhere in enforcing India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA).

Through the new movement for swadeshi-ware, we might get independence with self-reliance but may not get dignity of life as one has been guaranteed under Article 21 of Constitution of India. This push for dignity in India, is not limited to privacy, and privacy itself cannot be achieved without participation from different communities of people in India. Merely being a nationalist doesn’t guarantee you privacy or dignity. We must re-examine the goals of the swadeshi-ware movement and continue to hold it accountable.

by Srinivas Kodali

15/10/2025

क्यों #netanyahu #trump हुए #ceasefire पर मजबूर ? https://youtu.be/nBWI1edNIVk Discussion on Hamas's victory intensifies on Israeli TV channels. Hamas pressurise Israel to release its top leaders in Zionist jails. Efforts to increase aid access to Gaza ate continuing while Rafah Crossing to open today. Israel begins process to release Palestinian prisoners. US troops begin arriving in Israel to monitor the ceasefire. Israel's terrorist plot in Lebanon has been exposed. Saeed Naqvi, a senior journalist, has discussed the issues candidly.

PFLP statement 

In an interview with Al Mayadeen TV, regarding the Trump plan and the response of Hamas and the resistance factions, Dr. Maher al-Taher, head of international relations at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said:
- We salute our great Palestinian people in the steadfast and proud land of the Gaza Strip, and in the land of Palestine, who have written a glorious page in the history of Palestine, the Arab nation, and the free people of the world.
- We bow in reverence and respect to the martyrs, wounded, and prisoners of our people, who have written an immortal epic that will remain in the memory of generations to come.
- The steadfastness of our people and the miracle of their legendary resilience are the foundation that has moved the world to stop the war of extermination, starvation, and destruction of people and property.
Netanyahu was counting on Hamas and the Palestinian resistance factions rejecting the American plan, which was crystal clear regarding what was required of the Palestinian side: disarming the resistance and handing over Israeli prisoners. However, regarding the commitments required from the Israeli side, the plan is vague and raises dozens of questions. Every clause requires agreement, especially regarding the comprehensive and final ceasefire, the timetable for the withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the future of the Gaza Strip, and the management of affairs in the Strip. Talk of international forces ignores the Palestinian people and their authorities, who alone have the right to manage their own affairs.

After in-depth and responsible deliberations between the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and our brothers from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Palestinian factions, a unified position was formulated, surprising Netanyahu, who wanted to continue the killing and massacres, and the response of Hamas and the factions. After in-depth deliberations and consultations, he was responsible and put the ball in the Israeli court. This position is not the result of Trump's threats, but rather stems from the supreme interests of our people, paving the way for an end to the aggression and halting the war of extermination. Al-Taher stressed the need for caution and vigilance, as Netanyahu wants to recover his captives. He will then engage in all forms of deception and obstruction to continue the aggression, and may even seek to transfer his battles to other parties, particularly in Lebanon.

He also emphasized that national issues related to the Palestinian cause and the future of the Gaza Strip can only be addressed through a comprehensive Palestinian national consensus that concerns all Palestinians, in order to preserve Palestinian principles and restore our full rights to return, freedom, and independence. He pointed to the necessity and importance of continuing global pressure on both the Israeli and American sides to implement a comprehensive ceasefire, reconstruction, and the unhindered entry of aid, in order to achieve our people's just goals.

People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)