Latest developments - with 23 updates. Tuesday 16th Feb : Be Informed, Be Active
1. DSGPC lawyers bail 6 more farmers today. The farmers were detained by the Delhi Police on January 26 in connection with the incident. DSGPC said, “Our lawyers are fighting the cases of the farmers very closely. By the grace of God, we will soon be able to grant bail to the rest of the heroes as well”.
2. Deep Sidhu's police remand has been extended for 7 days.
3. Rakesh Tikait has said that surprisingly all crop prices increase but sugarcane price for farmer remains constant. Is farmer immune to inflation? He said govt owes more than 12,000cr to farmers which is unpaid.
4. Many farmers have not been paid for sugarcane for 2 years. How much more debt can they be put under? In which industry would you not get paid for product supplied 2 years earlier and still expect to be in business.
5. Tikait has said that unions are willing to talk and for that prime minister doesn’t have to necessarily appear in the meeting.
6. Farmers brought a system to cook food using steam. It’s a quicker and cheaper way of cooking food.
7. New tents on morcha sites being erected to prepare for summer.
8. Rotation of farmers continue as jatha s from different villages replace each other.
9. A new Jatha of farmers will be leaving for delhi from villages Bal Kalan and Bal Khurd. The sarpanch of the village Bal Kalan said that they are done with sowing of crops now & that all farmers & their families haven’t failed in the fields contrary to what Govt media shows.
10. India gets international condemnation for sedition cases. Rational people around the world realize how crazy BJP is acting.
11. Record google searches by youth in India about leaving India, as more realize that having any opinion expressed can be dangerous in this surveillance state.
12. Many activists and human right groups have called upon Indian govt to release #ReleaseDisha and #NodeepKaur.
13. 17 Tamilnadu youth groups pledge their support to youth activist and #DishaRavi. They say, "we will not be silenced, and will ramp up our support to farmers and Disha."
14. Former Supreme Court judge says the ‘toolkit’ which is being used by the Delhi police to arrest climate activists did not promote violence or carry anything seditious. Organising protests or tweet storms are not sedition.
15. Protest for Disha and standing up for farmers at Mysore Bank Circle, Bengaluru, Feb 15 at 4 pm!
16. A complaint seeking registration of FIR against Haryana Minister Anil Vij for "his hateful statement calling for the killing of Disha Ravi on Twitter" filed in Bengaluru.
17. 30 days after Republic TV Arnab Goswami is caught knowing national secrets, buying judges and bribery of rating agency, he is not arrested of charged. But a young female activist is charged for edited a google doc.
18. In what could actually be called a toolkit, Maharashtra police has said that names of BJP IT cell people & Malviya have come forward in investigation on Celebrity Paid tweets by Centre Govt in response to Rihanna. Celebrity bank accounts to be looked into by Maharashtra police, as they are against BJP agenda.
19. Indian agencies use BJP sympathizers in western countries to take out “Triranga marchs”. Aim is to counter the pro farmers marches. Then they use Godhi media to create artificial conflict. For example in Sydney Australia, they said they are ending the March at Glenwood Gurdwara.
20. In vancouver, the Bjp sympathizers use Godhi media to accuse pro farmer groups of surrounding Omni news reporter, which is completely false.
21. It’s all to deflect the narrative away from Farmer bills because BJP know they lost that debate, so they make the narrative about hyper nationalism, Indian flag, and foreign influence. They know this will make many flip to their side as siege politics in saffronised guise is always their last resort in India.
22. Then Godhi media and Indian journalists twist their incitement to blame Punjabis abroad in Canada, UK and Australia. Already news articles in Canadian press pushing agenda. “In an outreach message to the diaspora in Canada, India’s High Commissioner to Ottawa Ajay Bisaria wrote: “We are also concerned at reports that Indian citizen and friends of India who have expressed their views in support of the farm reforms in India have been targeted and subjected to intimidation, threats of violence and calls to boycott or disrupt their business. Reports of threats, including violence and rape, against Indo-Canadians were received from the Greater Toronto Area, Metro Vancouver, Calgary and Vancouver“. It’s a continuation of games by Indian agencies. Focus to create a lot of distractions so now nobody is talking about Ambani and Adani and close links to Modi as they asset strip India. We have to bring focus back in this narrative.
23. So it’s important to not get caught in the distraction intentionally caused by BJP. Instead focus on those farm bills and Adani and Ambani. This is where the global diaspora should focus. Please watch excellent video by Bhen ji Harmeet Maan on her Instagram page “creativemannco”. Link below.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLVHrJRhjMD/?igshid=wckas8m41xea
