A Victory Cast in Stone Mysore Victory Stone
Government is on the backfoot with determined farmers, especially from the northern states, protesting peacefully against the Farm Laws. They are joined by farmers and workers countrywide. Whatever the official obfuscations, this is a People’s agitation/ protest against laws which they well understand will do them harm.
In present times, barring ritual voting in elections, the will of We the People rarely receives recognition. A people s victory is rarer still when central and state governments impose laws and projects according to a pattern of development that is being questioned.
Therefore, victories of We the People need to be recalled, so that those who struggle to assert their rights may be encouraged to soldier on. Although its scale and width does not compare with the on-going farmers’ agitations, it is good to recall a People’s victory won by peaceful means, commemorated on July 24, 2010, with a “Vijayagallu” (Victo