Friday, January 1, 2021
By all counts, the numbers of kisans at Delhi’s borders, on all national highways entering Delhi, are growing displaying a remarkable resoluteness and determination to achieve their demands. Kisans have come from all neighbouring states of Delhi, including also from far-away states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttarakhand etc. In many other parts, in almost every state, the peasantry is organising continuous protest actions in all states, from Patna and Raipur to Gulbarga and Thanjavur. This kisan struggle is admirably being supported with active solidarity by the working class and its trade union movement. All other sections of the society – women, student, youth – have also rallied in support of the kisans – the country’s annadatas. The demands of this protest action are completely reasonable and any rational government would have accepted it. All that is being asked from the central government is to repeal these laws now (to avoid pressures of such a possibility, amongst others, the central government cancelled the winter session of the Parliament abdicating its responsibility to be answerable and accountable) and then discuss with the farmers, the agricultural community, the corporates, all stakeholders and on that basis frame new laws and enact them in the Parliament after a structured discussion and debate. This is what PM Modi obstinately refuses to do.
