Dear Friends,

Despite the silly flag incident, a few unfortunate skirmishes, consider the magnitude of what happened in Delhi yesterday. Around 2 lakh tractors, at least 7-9 lakh famers asserted their right to walk into their national capital on the day we mark to renew our pledge to live by our Constitution. This with no damage to any person, private or public property.

While most of our ‘national’ media has surrendered so abjectly to the regime, true news now survives on local internet media and sometimes in international media.

FRANCE 24 journalist, Leela Jacinto wrote about what happened, interviewed me. I said:

On government:

‘Modi has harvested decades of agrarian anger with the farm laws. Today’s events show that the state underestimated the might of the people.’
On Sanyukt Kisan Morcha: ‘Nobody understood why the decision was made to route the protest by keeping farmers on the outskirts of Delhi. The SKM didn’t spend enough effort to make the people understand. I think the SKM also underestimated the farmers by deciding everyone should follow the route.’

Thank you Leela. Please read here …

Tags: France24