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Differences surface as human rights issues highlighted during farmers agitation By Harsh Thakor. Dated: 12/17/2020 1:49:26 PM
“Leaders insisted on the need to guard against the agitation being identified with Sikh militancy in order to communalise it”
As intensity of the farmers’ resistance in Delhi surges, one wonders whether it has the potential of adding a new chapter in the history of protests in India. Indeed, never before in recent past have the rulers been embarrassed to such as extent as they seem to be have been during the current farmers’ agitation.
One could witness how the unity of varying farmers’ organizations the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) factions of Ugrahan, Rakewal, Dakaunda and the Kirti Kisan Union is tightening the noose around the Centre’s refusal accept their main demand, to take back the three farm bills.