Driving a hard bargain; not to secure the farmer but his political master January 25, 2021, 10:23 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
As protests by farmers ,mainly from Punjab, against three farm laws completes eight weeks this Republic Day, one stark message emerges from the spirited men encircling Delhi. Which is that the highway logjam is no ordinary protest about a few laws . It is more of a hard political bargain that is being driven in the name of farmers. The protests seem more aimed at reviving fortunes of a moribund political party than is connected to improving the lot of the ordinary farmer ; it is more intent on hobbling the Narendra Modi Government that decisively won 2019 Lok Sabha elections than perhaps finding ways to end the logjam .
Protesting farmer leaders allege conspiracy hatched to kill 4 of them during Jan 26 tractor rally
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January 23, 2021
New Delhi, Jan 23: Protesting farmer leaders on Friday alleged that a conspiracy has been hatched to kill four of them and create disturbance during their proposed tractor rally on January 26.
At a late-night press conference at the Singhu border, the farmer leaders presented a person who claimed that his accomplices were allegedly asked to pose as policemen and baton charge the crowd during the proposed tractor rally.
The farmer leaders claimed that they had caught the man from the protest site at the Singhu border. He was later handed over to the Haryana Police.
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Jhajjar: Farmers hold a tractor rally during their ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at KMP Expressway near Haryana-Delhi border in Jhajjar district, Thursday, Jan. 07, 2021.
Protesting farmers on Sunday took control and ransacked the venue of âkisan mahapanchayatâ programme at Kaimla village in Haryana s Karnal district where Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was to address people to highlight the âbenefitsâ of the Centre s three agriculture laws. Earlier, Haryana Police used water cannons and lobbed teargas shells to prevent farmers from marching towards the village. However, farmers reached the venue and disrupted the âkisan mahapanchayatâ programme.