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A Farmer Can t Be Draped in the Tricolour at His Funeral, But a Lynching Accused Can
The UP Police said they have filed an FIR against the family of a protesting farmer who passed away for draping his body with the national flag. When the same was done at the funeral of a Dadri lynching accused, though, no action was taken.
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Rights05/Feb/2021
New Delhi:Â Balvinder Singh, a farmer from Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit, was among the thousands of protesters at Delhi’s Ghazipur border. The 32-year-old went “missing” from the protest site, and was later found dead at a Delhi hospital. According to the police, he died in a road accident on January 25. He was cremated on February 3.
At any other time in India’s history, the title
Kaagaz would have meant just “paper”, literally. Alternatively, in the context of this film, it would have specifically and only meant the document on which a corrupt UP village official declared a living human being called Lal Bihari dead in the 1970s, having accepted a bribe to do so from the man’s uncle and cousins who then usurped their relative’s land. In today’s India though, where the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) have been widely criticised for their potential to disenfranchise rightful Indian citizens,