Tag: farmers
Autumn in West Bengal: The season of pain and not celebration
Reading Time: 4 minutes Autumn in Bengal has been stereotyped as per the romanticised version peddled by poets and authors for ages, ignoring the crisis it brings.
September 27th Bharat Bandh: farmers make Modi regime shudder
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffers setback due to the immense success of the September 27th Bharat Bandh called by the farmers protesting his new farm laws.
BKS’s protest on MSP is the RSS’s attempt to weaken the farmers’ movement
Reading Time: 3 minutes The BKS’s protest on MSP on September 8th is the RSS’s attempt to weaken the farmers’ movement by driving a wedge, especially before the Uttar Pradesh polls.
Police violence against farmers at Karnal: BJP’s anti-farmer hatred exposed again
Reading Time: 4 minutes Police violence against farmers at Karnal showed the BJP’s anti-farmer hatred. Can the same SDMs, who order cracking of heads, deliver justice to farmers?
After chit fund scams, microfinance debt trap exploits Bengal villagers
Reading Time: 5 minutes The microfinance companies have trapped the poor villagers of West Bengal in their obnoxious debt trap as these people have no access to institutional credit.
Six months of the farmers’ protest at Delhi: now BKMF to strengthen SKM’s struggle
Reading Time: 3 minutes The formation of the Bharatiya Kisan Mazdoor Federation after six months of the farmers’ protest at Delhi will surely aid the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s struggle.
Mounting sugarcane dues issue and the BJP’s complicity
Reading Time: 3 minutes While total sugarcane dues to farmers has reached Rs 229 billion in India, 60% of the amount is due to sugarcane farmers of BJP-ruled UP.
Not just the BJP: The TMC dupes West Bengal farmers too
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just like the BJP, the TMC dupes West Bengal farmers too by remaining nonchalant regarding the burning issues of agriculture sector of Bengal
BJP’s promises to West Bengal’s farmers: A hollow paradise
Reading Time: 5 minutes The BJP’s promises to West Bengal’s farmers are quite lucrative and paradise-like but unfortunately, they are all hollow and based on lies.
Striking hard: 12-hour-long Bharat Bandh by SKM receives overwhelming support
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 12-hour-long Bharat Bandh on March 26th called by the farmers’ body SKM against the Modi regime is striking hard the BJP’s domination.
Sinking potato price: A woe for north Bengal farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The falling potato price has become a curse for farmers of north Bengal districts who have invested huge amount to cultivate the crop.
Modi’s “Andolan jivi” remark shows his growing frustration with farmers’ protest
Reading Time: 6 minutes Narendra Modi’s “Andolan jivi” remark has won him criticism and condemnation. But it also shows how frustrated and scared his regime is now.
Beyond Rihanna’s tweet on farmers’ movement and Indian celebs’ Modi worship
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pop star Rihanna’s tweet on farmers’ movement stirred up a hornet’s nest in India as the Modi regime deployed its celebrity pawns for defence.
SVAMITVA scheme: A debt trap for farmers that can’t be ignored
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is little discussion on the SVAMITVA scheme under which the farmers will be entrapped in debt and corporates are going to profiteer.
When fascism comes to visit you
Reading Time: 6 minutes Is India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, still a democracy or has crossed the Rubicon and has become a full-fledged fascist state? If the developments over the last six years […]
Clash at Singhu Border repeats BJP’s 2020 violence template
Reading Time: 3 minutes A feral gang of 200 goons, armed with rods, sharp weapons and petrol bombs attacked the farmers protesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pro-corporate farm laws at Delhi’s Singhu border on […]
Ghazipur border is a game-changer in the farmers’ movement
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rakesh Tikait’s emotional outburst in Ghazipur border caused a major setback to Modi’s obnoxious game plan regarding farmers’ outburst
The legacy of the tractor rally on Republic Day can’t be diminished using the “violence” bogey
Reading Time: 5 minutes The legacy of the farmers’ heroic tractor rally on Republic Day can’t be diminished and vilified by the rulers using the violence bogey.
Nishan Sahib—the Khalsa flag—over India’s Red Fort on Republic Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes On India’s 71st Republic Day—which commemorates the adoption of the country’s constitution—Indian farmers, with Sikhs from the state of Punjab leading the charge, entered New Delhi as they continued their […]
Why should farmers protest farm laws all over India now? BKU leader explains
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bharatiya Kisan Union (Krantikari) Punjab president Surjeet Singh Phul explained why should farmers protest farm laws all over India now?