Winter vigil

January 18, 2021 17:41

"Punjab and Haryana, the homes of the Green Revolution, were the two states whose farmers were most affected by the Central government's agriculture laws. Like the Muslim women at Shaheen Bagh, the farmers demonstrating at Singhu and Tikri are defending themselves and, at the same time, making a larger argument about the proper relationship between government policy and the economic future of farming communities. The initiative was taken by farmers' unions, not by political parties. They were joined by farmers from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and other states who were not Sikhs but it is important to notice here that, as in Shaheen Bagh, the defence of the larger cause -- citizenship on the one hand and a vision of rural livelihood on the other -- was pioneered by religious minorities standing up for themselves. "

Read Mukul Kesavan's piece here

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