LUDHIANA: Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri’s scathing attack against Congress party ruled Punjab government on the issue of sale of vaccines procured.
Like in West Bengal, farmers vow to build a movement against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, where assembly polls are scheduled in 2022.
It Is Time Farmers Build a Protest Coalition With Other Groups Against the BJP
With an indifferent regime and media blacking out protests, farmers need to recalibrate their strategy to bring together a diverse set of groups across various sectors and regions to challenge the BJP.
Farmers listen to a leaders speech during the ongoing protest at Tikri border, a day after the farmers tractor rally, in New Delhi, January 27, 2021. Photo: PTI/ Kamal Kishore
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Farmer’s protests and mobilisation are as active as before, it is only that the media has blacked it out.
Farmers are not exhausted, but they sure are in a quandary as to what to do next: not only to get farm laws repealed but also to put agriculture back on the economic map of the country.