Why farmers peacefull protest turned to violence at Red Fort in National capital today?
Farmers exploitation since 30-40 years, Three corporate (=anti-farmers) farm bills, 62 days of peacefull protest, >157 farmer's deaths, 11 rounds of meetings failed, blind judiciary, adamant government, hopeless bureaucracy, provoking opposition political parties, biased & controlled media.
Farmers anger led to gherao, dharna, raasta roko, demonstration, suicides, where as police dug national highways to stop protestors entering delhi, lathi charge, spraying tear gas & water cannons on farmers, inturn farmers damage more than 1500 telecom tower sites, and now >2 lakhs tractors rally by >10 lakhs farmers and what not?
Everything ended in violence?
That too on National Republic Day?
Since past 61 days, thousands of farmers are protesting peacefully on national highways along with their old aged parents, wives, young childrens. More than 157 protesting farmers have died due to chilling winter and 7 to 8 people have suicide so far, thousands of farmers are sleeping on roads day and night, no proper basic amenities like food, clothing, drinking water, not even enough support from media. Farmers have setup their own community kitchens, they help each other, creating awareness via social networking sites, getting support from all the farmers unions across India. Very recently some international NGO started supporting their cause. This is going on since past 60 days.
They are protesting for whom? For our own future. They are demanding government to make MSP as their legal right. What's wrong in it? In the way of eliminating small middlemen through these new farm laws, govt is knowingly & intentionally creating super middlemen? Why and what for govt is licking ass of few big corporates?
Most of the developed nations adopted such corporate farm laws 3 to 4 decades back. Despite of huge govt subsidies, most of the farmers were forced to quit farming and their life came to road. Number of people engaged in farming gradually reduced and now only 1-2% left and that too they are big corporates.
Is it ok to adopt such corporate farm laws (which have already failed in developed nations) in highly populated nation like India, where 80-85% of population is engaged in farming, that too with small land holdings of less than 5 acre?
Is government capable of creating employment opportunities to 80-90% of farmers if they are forced to move out of farming in near future?
On an average 15000 farmers suicide every year. How long government want to continue it? How long we should read such farmers suicide stories in daily newspapers?
If government's intention is to double the farmers income and improve living standard of farmers, then why govt hesitating to make MSP as farmers legal right? What stopped government in doing it?
This doesn't necessarily mean what some miscreants have done at Red Fort today is acceptable. Peacefull protest is the constitutional right of every citizen. Constitution is above legislature and judiciary. Issue is pending before supreme court and let the law take it's own course.
But the peacefull farmers protest should be contd....
