Topic: Farmers

As the Election Commission on Saturday announced dates for Assembly polls in five states, farmer leaders said that people are unhappy with the BJP and it will play a decisive role in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh elections.

Speaking to Maktoob, Navkiran Natt, co-editor of Trolley Times, a newsletter that sprouted during farmers' protests, shared how they wanted a space to defend the misleading narratives spread by "Godi media".

Neither the Dalit political leaders nor Dalit educated class dared to ask, 'What about the land distribution to the landless?' One might argue that such a demand could have derailed the movement.

At least 22 farmers organisations who were a part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) that led the year-long historic protest against Narendra Modi government's farm laws, floated a political outfit Saturday and announced that they will contest all the 117 seats in the upcoming state Assembly polls.

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary claimed that all those who participated in the historic farmers’ agitation will jointly fight and oppose the ‘Kisan Virodhi’ (anti-farmer) government of Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming assembly elections. 

Gurnam Singh Charuni, one of the prominent faces of the farmers’ protest against Narendra Modi government's agricultural laws, launched his own political party – Sanyukt Sangharsh Party – on Saturday.