Day 221

Toll 530+

#KisanSangharsh

Parliament

The Kundli Police station, Singhu protest site is 40 kilometers from the Parliament. Tikri is 28 kilometers. Ghazipur is 15 kilometers. Yet, for the last seven months, despite union ministers earlier meeting farmers 11 times between November 26th 2020 and January 11, 2021, the government has perhaps forgotten that a farmers protests continues on the outskirts of Delhi.

That is why, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha has now decided to protest right outside the Parliament. Don’t worry, lakhs of farmers are not yet moving in to Delhi. Token five members per union, a total of 200-250 protesters are going to reach the outskirts of the Parliament from July 22nd until the monsoon session ends.

Remember how the Centre had insulted Tamil Nadu farmers who had also protested in small numbers but heart wrenchingly outside the Parliament from March until October in 2017? Yet, their demands we betrayed by a false promise by the Centre and the state government. You see what happened in the election? AIADMK and BJP lost badly.

One can hope this time the police will not try to stop these representative protest outside the Parliament. On the 17th of July, SKM will send a warning letter to all opposition parties in the country, to ensure that the session is used to support the farmers’ struggle, and that farmers’ demands are met by the government.

The idea is the government is challenged both inside the Parliament by the Opposition and outside by a representative of the lacs of farmers protesting on Delhi borders for the last seven plus months.