But we remained successful in maintaining the peaceful character of our movement,” said Jaswant Singh, 65, a resident of Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab.
At that time, we thought it was the end of it.
When some miscreants sneaked into our protest parade and stormed the Red Fort. “The toughest time that we faced during the entire agitation was on January 26, Republic Day.
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While the government introduced the set of laws as a revolutionary step towards agrarian reforms, the farmers viewed it as a step aimed at “corporatisation of agriculture”.Īlso read: How To Divide Farmers? Use ‘Khalistan’, ‘Maoist’ And ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’
The demands included the withdrawal of criminal cases against farmers, both related to stubble burning and agitation against three controversial farm laws, legal guarantee on MSP, compensating the families of the farmers who died during the year-long agitation, withdrawal of draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill and dismissal and land for the construction of a martyr’s memorial at Singhu for over 700 farmers who died during the protest demonstration.Įarlier on November 20, that marked Guru Nanak Jayanti, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the withdrawal of the three controversial farm laws. The decision to call off the strike came after the centre sent a written draft proposal to the SKM’s five-member committee on December 8 evening, responding to the latter’s demands and concerns. How Punjabi Singers Contributed To The Farmers Protest By Their Words And Melody The Farmers’ Protests Prove Why Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas Cannot Be BuriedĪs soon as the leaders of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of protesting farmers’ unions from Punjab, Haryana and west Uttar Pradesh, announced to call off the agitation on Thursday, December 9, revelry broke out at the protest site.Īs the modified tractors fitted with music systems started snarling through the protest camping site, farmers chanted slogans and danced to the Punjabi songs, celebrating their unity.įarmers had been staging a protest sit-in for more than a year at Delhi borders, against the now-scrapped set of farm laws and other issues including a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price(MSP) for their crops.Īlso read: Lift As We Sing: The Role Of Songs During Farmers’ Protests How Pash's Poetry Kept Farmers' Protest Spirited In other words, for many, it signifies a happy-go-lucky kind of attitude towards life without feeling bogged down by the existential challenges.Īlso read: From Dharmendra, Diljit To Priyanka, Celebrities Who Stood Up For Farmers' From the Magazine Poverty Porn: Making Heroes Out Of People Just Struggling To Survive Poverty In Bihar: Government Numbers Hide Real Story How Caste Equations Continue To Shape Bihar’s Economic Fortunes A Trafficked Woman, A Young Hotel Cleaner: Poverty’s Children Of Kishanganj Street Diary | A Rickshaw-puller’s Take On Life And LockdownĪs the farmers braced themselves for the long march back home, Sukhwinder Kaur, a farmer leader from Bathinda, told the secret of the farmers’ resilience in the face of all the odds - vagaries of weather, hostile media and political conspiracies - that preceded their victory, while several others around her concurred,“Its sabr (patience) that we have learnt from the words of our Gurus – ‘one should always live in Charddi Kla’.”Ī Punjabi term in Sikhism, “Charddi Kla” impresses on aspiring to maintain a mental state of eternal optimism and joy.
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