Latest developments - with 22 updates. Saturday 26th Dec : Be Informed, Be Active.
1. Major protests in Punjab as BJP chased out of towns. Jallundhar, Phagwara, Hoshiarpur, Bhatinda see BJP workers fleeing from farmers.
2. In Mukerian, Hosiarpur, BJP4 india were holding an event. Farmers chased them across fields. Police unable to jump a wall to stop it.
3. A group of BJP leaders in Punjab's Phagwara had to slip out from the backdoor on Friday after farmers protesting the central government's new farm laws picketed a hotel that they were holding an event in. Demonstrators from the Bharti Kisan Union (Doaba) protested at the hotel where the BJP leaders were observing the birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday.
4. A letter has been sent to centre highlighting modalities to repeal the 3laws and 2 ordinances. Clear cut discussion on the agenda will be done. We never asked for amendments.
5. Meeting with govt to be held on 29th at 11am. Govt is still to respond to the letter.
6. Shares in Ambani Reliance fall by 16%.
7. American Farmers Get Support Of $7253 Per Year. Indian Farmers Get Support Of Only $49 and Modi claims it as a huge victory.
8. Airtel Added 3.67 Million Users In October, Beats Reliance Jio And Vodafone. Should be significantly more in December.
9. Ambani complains in writing to Punjab govt for police action against farmers who disconnected 200 Jio towers in Punjab. According to Punjab Tribune, Jio lost 5-10 crore in 3 day’s. Punjabis have nearly 1.70 crore Jio mobile connections. Company has around 9 thousand towers in Punjab.
10. In Punjab, Announcements are being made from loudspeakers of Gurudwaras telling people to port their Jio mobile numbers to other companies. Decision of such announcements is not taken by Gurudwaras or Gurudwara Committees but by Villagers. Just because Gurudwaras have good Public addressing system, Villagers use Gurudwara’s loudspeakers for making major announcements.
11. In Punjab’s Taran Taran area, Power supply of 30 more towers have been cut off by farmers. President of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh committee Sukhwinder Singh Sabra said that in next few days power supply to all Jio towers of district will be cut off.
12. Punjab Tribune article - In Raikot, Farmers had cut off power supply but administration resumed the power supply forcing people to protest on the roads. Farmers ended the protest on road when administration cut off power supply.
13. LokRai events happening in protest, when farmers brainstorm and discuss their future and network with each other.
14. Union leader from Karnataka said that protests have been going on in Karnataka since September. He thanked Punjab and Haryana for taking the lead.
15. Vipin Patel, a farmer leader from Gujarat said that he was detained from 12-15 December. He said Narendra Modi should open borders of Gujarat to see how many farmers stand with him. Why is police detaining people?
16. Ranbir singh from RJ said that farmers from RJ are sitting at Shahjahanpur. He thanked people for reliance boycott and also said that Adani’s products need to be boycotted too. He said that more farmers are coming in to Shahjahanpur.
17. Shiv Kumar Kaka said that PM lied so many times yesterday. He said that govt submitted affidavit in 2015 that c2+50 cannot be implemented. Why is Pm fooling people? He said that all people PM addressed were employees of pesticide companies not farmers.
18. BJP Ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party Quits NDA Over Agri Reforms. “I have left the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) in protest against the three farm laws. These laws are anti-farmer. I have left NDA but won't forge alliance with Congress”: Rashtriya Loktantrik Party chief Hanuman Beniwal
19. Farmers to hold tractor march on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal highway on Dec 30 in protest against Centre's agri laws. We request people from Delhi and other parts of country to come and celebrate New Year with protesting farmers: Union leader Darshan Pal.
20. Old video surfaces of Navjit Singh Sidhu listing billions in deals that Modi gave Ambani and Adani on foreign visits, sometime their have billions of bank loans cleared so no repayments needs to be made, others are billions of defense deals. Navjot Sidhu shows the massive corruption between Modi, Ambani and Adani.
21. Many observers at the morcha speak of the amazing scene at Amrit Vela when thousands sit doing simran and nitnem.
22. Many protestors reading books on Sikhi. Below are pictures from the morcha today.
