Farmer’s protest 2021 brief.
Farmer’s
Protest
(brief)
By Rajeev Bhushan Singh
Under guidance of Adv. Vipin Bharti
(Supreme Court of India)
Details of the protest:
· The trending news nowadays, the farmers are protesting
against the NDA led Modi government. Farmers from Punjab, Haryana, and western
Uttar Pradesh are protesting against the three farm laws. The farmers are
marching to Delhi across the borders from Haryana and Delhi.
· Haryana police and Delhi police are busy in
security arrangements and sealing the borders and deter farmers from entering
the National Capital.
· The farmers are demanding legal
guarantee of MSP for all crops and demanding to set crops prices as per Swaminathan
commission’s report (formed in 2006 to address agricultural issues
in India) and more.
· Delhi
and Haryana Police sealed multiple entry points into National capital by
barriers of barbed wire, spikes and cement blocks and also internet services
were suspended in some districts of the neighboring state of Haryana.
· The
protests are led by Jagjit Singh Dallewal of BKU (Dallewal) and Sarvan Singh
Pandher of Kisan Mazdoor Morcha.
Difference between Previous and current
farmer protest:
· Last
time the main demand was to repeal the farm laws which the government had
accepted after nearly two years of protests.
· In
the earlier protests, almost all the farmer organizations in Punjab, Haryana
and Western Uttar Pradesh numbering more than 40 were under the Sanyukta kisan
Morcha (SKM)
· Last
time such as Darshan Pal, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Rakesh Tikait, Balbir Singh
Rajewal and Gurnam Singh Charuni.
· SKM
(non-political) includes BKU (Dallewal) led by Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan
Mazdoor Morcha led by Sarvan Singh Pandher. It claims support of 17 farm
organisations. Pandher and Dallewal from Punjab and Abhimanyu Kohar from
Haryana have been the most visible faces of SKM (non-political)
Demands :
· Legal
guarantee of MSP for all crops (Currently, the government announces MSP for
only a selective few crops)
· And
demanding to set crops prices as per Swaminathan commission’s report.
Farmers
are also pressurizing the government to meet its promise to double their
income.
· Farmers
above 60 years of age are demanding a monthly pension of ₹10,000.
· also
asking for the withdrawal of cases registered during the last agitation in
2020-21.
Analysis :
After 2021 farmer protest led government to withdraw
all three controversial acts, namely Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce
(Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection)
Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020, and promised to set up
a panel of growers and government officials to find ways to ensure support
prices for all produce. Farmers accuse the government of going slow in
fulfilling those promises.
Bibliography:
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Indian_farmers%27_protest
Comments
Post a Comment