Latest developments - with 19 updates. Monday 11th Jan : Be Informed, Be Active
1. Four more farmers have passed away today taking the toll to 75.
2. Harpinder Singh (60yr) of Abul Khurana village, Muktsar Sahib passed away due to cold.
3. Another farmer Jagdish Singh of Muktsar Sahib passed away due to pneumonia after being shifted to Ludhiana.
4. Nirmal Singh of Village dhola in Barnala committed suicide after reaching home. Nirmal singh was attending protests at Tikri Border.
5. Bhai Naseeb Singh Mann committed suicide due to government not taking back agriculture law. These acts of suicide if done for the morcha make no sense and should not be encouraged. They are against Sikhi and achieve nothing.
6. The Supreme Court of India gone the way we expected. They gave minor decisions to the farmers to entice them into the process, then will side with BJP govt on the main decision. There is bias in the court and itβs never decided against the govt.
7. Farmers do not want to get involved in Supreme Court process as they see it as a trap. The Supreme Court said farmers have a right to protest and implementation of laws should be delayed. It will be portrayed in media as a initial victory for farmers, but in reality is nothing new, neither any initial victory.
8. Dushyant Dave, one of lawyers acting for farmers in Supreme Court said, βif the government is serious, then it can convene a joint session of Parliament to discuss the laws. Why are they not doing that?
9. Supreme Court wants to drag farmers into a small committee. This is what BJP govt has been trying to do in the previous meetings with farmers. Farmers do not want this, as they know a smaller committee of people can be manipulated by BJP govt and it will not be answerable to Sangat at protests which is the farmers. At the moment, the larger group of leaders is keeping each other in check and in front of Sangat of protesting farmers every days. The last thing farmers want is lawyers or judges to make decisions on farming with no knowledge of farming.
10. Delhi police have put a petition that it is not a 26 January tractor march, a protest march, but a defamation march to the entire India, so the High Court should ban it. Said β²β² a small group β²β² wanted to take it out. The right to protest is not included in the right to defame the whole country.
11. Haryana Police has registered around 800 cases against the farmers who disrupted the Karnal rally. Cases have been registered for damaging govt property, manhandling cops, and disruption of public activities along with damages.
12. Lakha Sidhana going around various districts of Punjab gathering support for 26th Jan event. His speeches are on point as usual and educating huge sections of Punjab towards thinking about Punjabs own interests rather than allowing politicians to abuse it further.
13. Flags of farmer unions on cars and buses is seen everywhere you go. Punjab is awoken to the threat to its existence.
14. FarmersProtests enters day 112 in Punjab. A tractor rally was taken out in Nasrala under guidance of BKU Rajewal. The tractor rally with more than 500 tractors passed through Nasrala, Hoshiarpur and Banuwala.
15. Campaigners are calling for the Shree Brar to be freed and drop all charges against him. The charges are baseless and hold no ground. This arrest is part of a policy to silence voices for Punjab. Jaggi Johal is a victim of the same policy. Both of them have been tortured in detention cells.
16. HS Phoolka said that they have caught vested interests who want to derail the protests. People like girls and agents are planted by police.
17. Yesterday Haryana CM Kattar complained about farmers digging up his helipads snd not chasing off the BJP workers. He said they were damaging Indian govt property. He seems to have forgot it was him who dug up national highways 44 days ago when farmers were coming to Delhi. Was that not damaging Indian govt property? He may have forgot, but farmers who were attacked did not.
18. Large kisaan rally being arranged across UK to London Indian High Commission for Tuesday 26th January.
19. Washington Post covers the protests.
