Nodeep Kaur, Who Fought for Workers Rights, Faced Custodial Torture, Alleges Family
Kaur s sister believes that the attack on her by the police and the company owners is not just because of her activism but also because she is a Dalit woman.
Nodeep is associated with the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan â a union of the workers and farmers â in Kundli. Photo: Special arrangement
Rights03/Feb/2021
Mohali: Among the many stories of arrests and intimidation by the state during the farmersâ ongoing struggle, one story is of 23-year-old Nodeep Kaur â a Dalit woman and a trade union activist who joined the agitation against the new agri-marketing laws in the early days of November.Â
Protesting farmers and Kundli workers support each other in fight for their rights 30 December 2020
A tent set up by the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan near the farmers protest site at Kundli, on the Delhi-Haryana border. A banner on it reads: “On non-payment of dues by a company owner or contractor, contact [mobile number].” Pranshu For The Caravan
A tent set up by the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan near the farmers protest site at Kundli, on the Delhi-Haryana border. A banner on it reads: “On non-payment of dues by a company owner or contractor, contact [mobile number].” Pranshu For The Caravan
Rinku Kumar, a 35-year-old labourer, told me that when the coronavirus lockdown was imposed in March, he was working at a steel-manufacturing company, one of the many industrial units at Kundli, a city in Haryana’s Sonipat district. Like several other migrants, he went back home to Bihar’s Khagaria district. Kumar said his employer owed him