Why November 26 is significant for farmers and a look back at the 2020 protests

A look astatine the events that took spot connected November 26 4 years agone and wherefore farmers’ protests person continued this year.

November 26 and its significance

On October 20, 2020, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) organised a gathering wherever the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) was formed. The SKM would spell connected to spearhead the farmers’ agitation against the 3 cardinal workplace laws astatine the Delhi borders.

A period later, connected November 26, 2020, the AIKSCC gave a ‘Dilli Chalo’ telephone to protest the 3 workplace laws that had been passed successful Parliament successful September. Hundreds of farmers from Punjab and Haryana started marching to Delhi and were joined by farmers from different states astatine the Singhu, Tikri and Kundli borders of Haryana and Delhi.

The Haryana authorities placed respective barriers to forestall the farmers from travelling to Delhi astatine the Shambhu, Khanauri, Guhla Cheeka etc introduction points but the farmers broke the barriers and marched ahead. Water cannons and teardrop state shells were besides utilized to halt the protesters but they reached the Delhi borderline and camped determination for 13 months.

Nearly 750 farmers died during this agitation owed to wellness issues oregon accidental deaths; astir casualties were from Punjab.

The contentious workplace laws were repealed successful November 2021 pursuing an announcement made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected November 19 connected the juncture of Gurpurab, the commencement day of Guru Nanak Dev.

The farmers, however, stayed enactment till December 9, 2021, until their unions got the committedness successful writing. They past dismantled the impermanent villages acceptable up connected the highways and returned location celebrating.

What happened afterwards

The farmers were promised that a committee would beryllium acceptable up to enactment towards the implementation of minimum enactment price (MSP) arsenic a ineligible guarantee, punishment would beryllium meted retired to the culprits of the Lakhimpur Kheri case, each FIRs lodged against farmers during the workplace laws’ agitation would beryllium quashed etc. “But the promises are lone connected paper. We are inactive seeking implementation of MSP arsenic a ineligible warrant and our different demands besides stand. Now, November 26 has go a historical time for america and we retrieve our conflict for crores of farmers of this region connected this day,” Dr Darshan Pal, nationalist coordination committee subordinate of SKM, told The Indian Express connected Monday.

The day of the farmers’ agitation is observed connected November 26 and December 9 each year. This twelvemonth is the 4th day of the agitation.

The protests this year

The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and SKM (non-political) gave a ‘Dilli Chalo’ telephone connected February 13 this twelvemonth implicit their long-pending demands, including MSP arsenic a ineligible guarantee. However, they were not allowed to march ahead. The Haryana authorities erected walls connected the highways and enactment successful spot seven-layer barricading. The constabulary resorted to teardrop state shelling astatine Shambhu and Khanauri from the Haryana broadside and a young farmer, Shubhkaran Singh, from Punjab’s Bathinda territory died connected February 24. Farmers person stayed enactment astatine these borders since then.

It was to observe the November 26 day that Dallewal had fixed a telephone to beryllium connected a fast-unto-death astatine Khanauri borderline from November 26. Farmers person been asked to commencement gathering astatine Khanauri borderline and are apt to locomotion connected ft towards Delhi from December 6.

The farmers person a 13-point agenda, with MSP arsenic a ineligible warrant being the cardinal demand. They are besides opposing the Digital Agriculture Mission, the privatisation of nationalist assemblage ventures etc.

On Tuesday, the SKM volition organise nationwide protests against the Centre successful 500 districts on with cardinal commercialized unions.